Much Wenlock No. 3 / Wenloch]
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view of church exterior - north transept
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by Adrian Fletcher [www.paradoxplace.com/Photo Pages/UK/Britain_Centre/Wenlock_Priory/Wenlock Priory.htm] [accessed 9 July 2015]
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view of church interior - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian Fletcher, 2015
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view of church interior - south transept
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian Fletcher, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Adrian Fletcher [www.paradoxplace.com/Photo Pages/UK/Britain_Centre/Wenlock_Priory/Wenlock Priory.htm] [accessed 9 July 2015]
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view of church interior - plan
Scene Description: aerial photograph shows the interior plan of the ruined priory church; the wall structure of the north transept still standing, while most of the south transept has crumbled down
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian Fletcher, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Adrian Fletcher [www.paradoxplace.com/Photo Pages/UK/Britain_Centre/Wenlock_Priory/Wenlock Priory.htm] [accessed 9 July 2015]
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view of basin
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Image Source: photograph by the Courtauld Institute of Art in A&A Art & Architecture [www.artandarchitecture.org.uk]
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view of object
Scene Description: the reconstructed fountain
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Apostle or saint? - unidentified - 2
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New Testament - Public life of Christ - miracles of Christ - Christ walks on water - detail
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New Testament - Public life of Christ - miracles of Christ - Christ walks on water
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stone, 1955
Image Source: B&W photograph in Stone (1955)
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New Testament - Public life of Christ - miracles of Christ - Christ walks on water - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stone, 1955
Image Source: B&W photograph in Stone (1955)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11128WEN
Object Type: Other
Object Details: Ablutions vessel
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (late?), Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: St. Milburga's Cluniac Priory [in ruins]
Font Location in Church: In the cloister
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Milburga [aka Milburh, Milburgha]]
Church Notes: original Anglo-Saxon nunnery founded here ca. 680 (?); replaced in 12thC by male Cluniac priory
Church Address: 5 Sheinton St, Much Wenlock, Shropshire TF13 6HS, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1952 727466
Site Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located at the A458-A4169 crossroads, 11 km NW of Bridgnorth, 18-20 km SE of Shrewsbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Historical Region: Hundred of Patton [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Munslow, Liberty and Borough of Wenlock
Font Notes:
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A washing or ablutions fountain in the cloister of the Cluniac priory of Much Wenlock, described and illustrated in Stone (1955), who suggests a date in the last quarter of the 13th century: "In the scene of Christ walking upon the waters [...] appear thick grooved folds of drapery, enveloping squat figures with very large heads. The features and hair are now carefully and naturalistically modelled and the gestures of arms and hands are more sensitive in conception. The head of Christ is an almost exact reproduction of a classical dramatic mask, including the odd-shape hole for the mouth". Illustrated in the Art & Architecture web site [www.artandarchitecture.org.uk] where the original surviving parts can be seen in the context of the reconstruction. [cf. Index entries for Much Wenlock Nos. 1 and 2 for the baptismal fonts in the church]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Adrian Fletcher [www.paradoxplace.com] for his photographs of this priory ruins
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 530137 5827578
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.59739, -2.55506
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 35′ 50.6″ N, 2° 33′ 18.22″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Stone, Lawrence, Sculpture in Britain: the Middle Ages, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1955, p. 100 and pl. 69B