Osmaston

Results: 2 records

B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches

B02: design element - motifs - foliage

INFORMATION

FontID: 10676OSM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Country Name: England
Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the A52, 4 km SE of Ashborne, 16 km WNW of Derby
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: The font at Kirk Hallam, in the same county, is similar, though not identical
Noted in Lysons (1806-1833) as a baptismal font of circular shape ornamented "with tracery of circular arches and foliage". In Glover (1831) probably after Lysons. Described in Bagshaw (1846): "The font, of Roche Abbey stone, is a large circular bowl, with a continuous lotus ornament on the upper part." Kelly's Directory of 1881, too, mentions the lotus font in the church, but also reports "an ancient font, now overgrown with greens" in the churchyard [we have no other information on the latter font].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, Roche Abbey stone [cf. FontNotes]
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

The History and gazetteer of the County of Derby: drawn up from actual observation and from the best authorities [...] the materials collected by the publisher Stephen Glover. Edited by Thomas Noble [...], Derby: Stephen Glover. Printed for the publisher by Henry Mozley and Son, 1831
Bagshaw, Samuel, History, gazetteer and directory of Derbyshire, with the town of Burton-upon-Trent […], Sheffield: printed for the author by William Saxton […], 1846
Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, London: Kelly & Co., 1881
Lysons, Daniel, Magna Britannia, being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain, London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822