Throcking

Results: 2 records

B01: design element - patterns - tracery

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

LB01: design element - motifs - panel

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 11941THR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity
Country Name: England
Location: Hertfordshire, East
Directions to Site: Located 3 km NW of Buntingford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Hertforshire (1911): "Font: of chalk, bowl with panelled sides of different designs, panelled stem, 15th-century." In Pevsner & Cherry (1977): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with various tracery patterns on the panels of the bowl; the stem is also panelled.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, chalk
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire, London: Printed for His Majesty's Stationary Office by J. Truscott, 1911
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Hertfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1977