Hartshorne / Heorteshorne

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 February 2014 by Jane Horan

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 February 2014 by Jane Horan

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: notice the evidence of plugs from an old font in the upper rim

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 February 2014 by Jane Horan

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 July 2003 by Geoff Pick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/121499] [accessed 7 January 2016]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 February 2014 by Jane Horan

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11565HAR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: 4 Church Street, Hartshorne, Derbyshire DE11 7ER, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located on the A514, ESE of Burton-on-Trent

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Derby

Historical Region: Hundred of Walecross [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jane Horan, churchwarden at Hartshorne St. Peter's, for her photographs of this font

Church Notes: church here documented by 1303

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Hartshorne [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK3221/hartshorne/] [accessed 7 January 2016], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Pevsner (1978) writes: "Font. Octagonal, tapering, plain, probably C14." English Heritage [Listing NGR: SK3273020835] (1967) reports a "Plain tapering octagonal font, probably C14" here. The Hartshorne St Peter's guide [http://hartshornechurch.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/History-of-St-Peter’s-Church-Hartshorne.pdf] [accessed 7 January 2016] reports the 14th-century font being moved around in the re-built church of 1835. The font appears monolithic, of two volumes: the tall tapering volume and a short slightly wider lower base, all octagonal; the upper rim of the basin has a prominent moulding and the upper surface shows evidence of metal plugs, probably from an old cover; the parish contact informs that there is no cover in use at present; there is a second moulding below the one mentioned, otherwise the rest of the font is plain. The inner basin is roughly cylindrical in shape and has a central drain; no lining.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.783972, -1.516316

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 47′ 2.3″ N, 1° 30′ 58.74″ W

UTM: 30U 600064 5849271

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: no lining

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Derbyshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978