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B01: symbol - cross - saltire

Scene Description: on several of the sides of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph by Craig Thornber, 2006 [www.thornber.net]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B02: inscription

Scene Description: on one of the panels: "1660" over "WP"

Image Source: digital photograph by Craig Thornber, 2006 [www.thornber.net]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B03: inscription

Scene Description: on one of the panels: "FC" over "FM"

Image Source: digital photograph by Craig Thornber, 2006 [www.thornber.net]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

BU01: inscription

Scene Description: "1660 / PM"

Image Source: Richards (1973)

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CR01: design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph by Craig Thornber, 2006 [www.thornber.net]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph by Craig Thornber, 2006 [www.thornber.net]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Image Source: Richards (1973)

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

FontID: 10747BRE

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Oswald

Church Patron Saints: St. Oswald of Nothumbria

Country Name: England

Location: Cheshire, North West

Directions to Site: Located about 10 km W of Congleton

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, S side

Date: 1660

Century and Period: 17th century(mid), Restoration

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Craig Thornber, of www.thornber.net, for the photograph of this font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Richards (1973): "The font [...] is octagonal with decorated panels, and inscribed: -- W.P.: F.C.: I.S.: C.W.: 1660: I.K.M." The font consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides and a chamfered underbowl that ends in a thick roll moulding, an octagonal stem with a thin roll moulding, and a moulded lower base, also octagonal. The narrow plinth is octagonal and plain. Some of the sides of the basin have a saltire motif on them, while the others have been carved with large inelegant lettering: the date appears on one of the panels above the initials "WP", and again on the stem of the base, upper side, followed by the initials "PM" [or "FM"?]. Richards (ibid.) does not mention the initials "FM", which appear on another basin panel under "FC". The flat wooden cover appears modern. The font has an ungainly, clumsy appearance. [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

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: letters and numbers

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes and ImageArea]

Inscription Location: chiefly on some basin panels, but also on the stem of the base

Inscription Text: "WP: FC: FM: IS: CW: 1660: IKM: / 1660: PM"

Inscription Source: Richards (1973) and ImageArea

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

REFERENCES

Richards, Raymond, Old Cheshire churches: a survey of their history, fabric and furniture with records of the older monuments, with a supplementary survey relating to the lesser old chapels of Cheshire, Didsbury, Manchester: E.J. Morten, 1973