Layston

Results: 2 records

B01: design element - motifs - panel

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

LB01: symbol - shield - emblem - Christ - the instruments of the Passion

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 11968LAY
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Bartholomew
Church Patron Saints: St. Bartholomew
Country Name: England
Location: Hertfordshire, East
Directions to Site: Located near Buntingford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Hertfordshire (1911): "Font: panelled bowl, stem with small shields, many of them broken, carved with the emblems of the Passion, 15th-century." The RCHM (ibid.) lists reports also a holy-water stoup: "in the tower, S. of the W. doorway, in a cinquefoiled niche" [no separate entry made in this Index]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
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