Kirkby Thore / Bravoniacum
Image copyright © Matthew Philip Hicks Emmott, 2013
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the late-17thC font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Matthew Philip Hicks Emmott, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph December 2013 by Matthew Philip Hicks Emmott [http://cumbrianchurches.blogspot.ca/2013/12/kirkby-thore-st-michael.html] [accessed 28 July 2014]
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symbol - shield - coat of arms - Thomas Machell
![rector [cf. FontNotes] -- the oak cover has his name on it](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140730019_compressed.png)
Scene Description: rector [cf. FontNotes] -- the oak cover has his name on it
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Matthew Philip Hicks Emmott, 2013
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph December 2013 by Matthew Philip Hicks Emmott [http://cumbrianchurches.blogspot.ca/2013/12/kirkby-thore-st-michael.html] [accessed 28 July 2014]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Matthew Philip Hicks Emmott, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph December 2013 by Matthew Philip Hicks Emmott [http://cumbrianchurches.blogspot.ca/2013/12/kirkby-thore-st-michael.html] [accessed 28 July 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Matthew Philip Hicks Emmott, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph December 2013 by Matthew Philip Hicks Emmott [http://cumbrianchurches.blogspot.ca/2013/12/kirkby-thore-st-michael.html] [accessed 28 July 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Matthew Philip Hicks Emmott, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph December 2013 by Matthew Philip Hicks Emmott [http://cumbrianchurches.blogspot.ca/2013/12/kirkby-thore-st-michael.html] [accessed 28 July 2014]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11048THO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1688
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(late)
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Address: 1 Dunfell View, Kirkby Thore, Cumbria CA10 1UR
Site Location: Cumbria, North West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A66, in the Eden valley, 8 km NW of Appleby-in-Westmorland, 13 km ESE of Penrith
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Carlisle
Historical Region: formerly Westmoreland
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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No entry found in the Domesday survey. English Heritage [Listing NGR: NY6380425945] (1968) notes: "Parish Church, C12 with later additions and alterations. [...] Moulded octagonal font was set up in 1688 by Thomas Machell, the rector, whose coat of arms is carved on one side." A font here is noted in Pevsner (1967): "Font. 1688. Plain octagonal bowl with a coat of arms. Shorter baluster stem."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Matthew Philip Hicks Emmott, of Cumbrian Churches [http://cumbrianchurches.blogspot.ca] for his photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 528509 6053206
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.6273, -2.5621
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Location: basin side
Inscription Text: [1688]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: low-dome octagonal; carved with rector's name: Thomas Machell
REFERENCES
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cumberland and Westmorland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1967, p. 267