Weaverham
Image copyright © Raymond Richards, 1973
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Raymond Richards, 1973
Image Source: Richards (1973)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10764WEA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 15th century [base] -- 17th century[basin] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end, in front of the tower arch
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Cheshire, North West, England, United Kingdom
Additional Comments: recycled font -- restored font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Noted in Pevsner (1971): "The font is a short C13 column, the base typical of the date. The bowl is later, C14 or C15." Richards (1973) writes: "The font, octagonal in shape with plain sides, is post-Restoration and retains its original bowl cover. It is placed in front of the tower arch, and was returned to the church in 1927, having been temporarily discarded for a marble font given in 1877. The base of the font is obviously much older than the seventeenth century bowl. The wooden cover is very fine Jacobean work, and was rescued from the stable loft little the worse for wear by the late Charles E. Bebbington in 1887."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th century / Jacobean
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cheshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1971, p. 378
- 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. 346