Brereton
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Results: 7 records
B01: symbol - cross - saltire
Scene Description: on several of the sides of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2006
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"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2006
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"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Craig Thornber, 2006 [www.thornber.net]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
BU01: inscription
Scene Description: "1660 / PM"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Raymond Richards, 1973
Image Source: Richards (1973)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
CR01: design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Craig Thornber, 2006 [www.thornber.net]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Craig Thornber, 2006 [www.thornber.net]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Raymond Richards, 1973
Image Source: Richards (1973)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10747BRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1660
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(mid), Restoration
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Oswald
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, S side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Oswald of Nothumbria
Site Location: Cheshire, North West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located about 10 km W of Congleton
Font Notes:
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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]
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
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: letters and numbers
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 Notes: [cf. FontNotes and ImageArea]
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, p. 69, pl. 77