Goostrey
Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2006
Standing permission
Results: 7 records
B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil
Scene Description: with other foliage or floral motifs in the centre
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Craig Thornber, 2006 [www.thornber.net]
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B02: design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: in some of the quatrefoils
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Craig Thornber, 2006 [www.thornber.net]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B03: design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: in some of the quatrefoils
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Craig Thornber, 2006 [www.thornber.net]
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LB01: symbol - shield - coat of arms - unidentified - 8
Scene Description: on the panels 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 - patterns - tracery
Scene Description: on the panels of the stem
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Raymond Richards, 1973
Image Source: Richards (1973)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10769GOO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Luke
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Luke
Site Location: Cheshire, North West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A50, 10 km N of Sandbach
Additional Comments: altered font? re-carved stem? [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Richards (1973): "Placed at the west end of the church is the charming fifteenth century font [...] It is octagonal in shape, having panels of beautifully carved quatrefoils in conjunction with flowers and foliage. The shaft is also elaborated with well-cut shields and tracery. Indeed if this font belonged to the original timber-framed church at Goostrey, the furniture and fittings in pre-Reformation times must have been of an exceedingly high order." [NB: the shields on the stem do not quite seem to fit the overall design of the font; were they carved on the (plain?) original stem at a later date?]. [We are grateful to Craig Thornber, of www.thornber.net, for the photographs 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: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal; flat and plain, with ring handle
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. 165-166, pl. 262