Malpas
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Results: 6 records
B01: design element - motifs - panel - quatrefoiled - 8
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Craig Thornber, 2006 [www.thornber.net]
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BU01: design element - motifs - floral - rose - 8
Scene Description: one on each panel of the underbowl chamfer
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Craig Thornber, 2006 [www.thornber.net]
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LB02: design element - motifs - panel - trefoiled - 8
Scene Description: one on each side of the stem
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Craig Thornber, 2006 [www.thornber.net]
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LB02: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: at either end of the stem
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Craig Thornber, 2006 [www.thornber.net]
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LB03: design element - motifs - floral - rose - 8
Scene Description: one on each side of the splaying lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Craig Thornber, 2006 [www.thornber.net]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Craig Thornber, 2006 [www.thornber.net]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10743MAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Oswald
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Oswald of Nothumbria
Site Location: Cheshire, North West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 25-30 km S of Chester, towards the county border with Shropshire
Font Notes:
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Noted in Pevsner (1971): "Font. Octagonal; Perp[endicular]. Quatrefoils on the bowl, fleurons on the base, panelling on the stem." The font consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with large quatrefoil panels, not all identical, as some have 3-leaf motifs on the internal points of the quatrefoil; the chamfered underbowl has a rosette on each panel, a motif that appears also on the splaying lower base; the sides of the stem are decorated with trefoil panels and the stem has a moulding at either end. Octagonal wooden cover decorated with thacery (?) raised mouldings on the angles of the very low pyramid; finial. [We are grateful to Craig Thornber, of www.thornber.net, for the photograph of this font]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Craig Thornber, of www.thornber.net, for the photograph of this font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: unknown
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cheshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1971, p. 273