Kirkbride No. 2
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Results: 3 records
design element - motifs - foliage
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Ross & Britain Express Ltd, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph by David Ross & Britain Express in Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/counties/cumbria/churches/kirkbride.htm] [accessed 17 August 2019]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Ross & Britain Express Ltd, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph by David Ross & Britain Express in Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/counties/cumbria/churches/kirkbride.htm] [accessed 17 August 2019]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - trefoil - in a circle
INFORMATION
FontID: 11027KIR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Bride [aka St Brydock's]
Church Patron Saints: St. Brigid of Ireland [aka Brigit, Bridget, Bride, Brydoch, Brydock, Ffraed, Ffraid, Fraed]
Church Location: Kirkbride CA7 5HR , UK
Country Name: England
Location: Cumbria, North West
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the B5307, 6-7 km S of Bowness, 10 km NNW of Wigton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Carlisle
Historical Region: formerly Cumberland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David Ross & Britain Express Ltd for the photographs of this church and fonts
Font Notes:
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No indiviadual entry for Kirkbride found in the Domesday survey [NB: the Domesday survey did not cover this area of England].. The Mannix & Whellan Directory of Cumberland for 1847 recorded "a capacious and much admired font", as well as an earlier font or stoup in this church [transcription in www.stevebulman.f9.co.uk/cumbria/kirkbride.html]. Only one font, "notable", is mentioned in Cox (1913). Pevsner (1967) notes two fonts as well: "The other square larger and Perp[endicular], with nobbly leaf around the underside and against the sides circles, trefoiled and quatrefoiled." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: NY2296057329] notes: "Parish church. C12 with C19 restoration. [...] Square-bowled font with knobbly leaf decoration around the underside and trefoil and quatrefoil panel decorations on each side. Small square stoup in chancel has rounded corners and carved lamb and cross decoration." [cf. Index entry for Kirkbride No. 1 for a smaller font of an earlier period in this church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.904748, -3.202980
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54°5 4' 17.2" N, 3° 12' 11" W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, Cumberland and Westmorland, London: George Allen & Co. Ltd., 1913
Mannix, History, gazetteer and directory of Cumberland, Cumberland: Michael Moon, 1974 c1847
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cumberland and Westmorland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1967