Shrewsbury No. 3 / Pengwern
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B01: design element - motifs - moulding
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B02: design element - patterns - tracery (trefoiled, quatrefoiled, cinquefoiled, circular, etc.)
Scene Description: in the panels of the basin sides
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B03: symbol - varied - in a traceried panel
Scene Description: head, floral, etc. [cf. Font notes]
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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Scene Description: on the upper lervl of the underbowl chamfer
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BU02: symbol - varied
Scene Description: floral, human, etc., on the lower level of the underbowl chamfer [cf. Font notes]
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LB01: design element - architectural - window - Gothic - trefoiled - 8
Scene Description: open-work on the sides of the stem
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LB02: design element - architectural - buttress - 8
Scene Description: at the angles of the octagonal stem
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LB03: design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Scene Description: on the lower base
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LB04: design element - motifs - unidentified
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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view of font
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view of basin - underbowl - detail
Scene Description: a human figure reclining, the head on the left
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12015SHE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Church of St. Mary, Shrewsbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Saint Mary, s Street, Shrewsbury SY1 1DX, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 845 303 2760
Site Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 40 km W of Wolverhampton. The church is located in St. Mary's Place
Font Notes:
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An etching of St. Mary's font, inscribed "E.P. Owen Etched 1813" [i.e., Rev Edward Pryce Owen] in 1813, is held at the British Museum, Prints & Drawings Dept., Registration number: 1857,0509.78. Location: British XIXc Unmounted Imp] [e-image not yet available]. A baptismal font is reported in this church in Tymms (1834). A drawing of this font is reported in The Salopian Shreds and Patches issue for June 9, 1880 (p. 49). Described in Newman & Pevsner (2006). Baptismal font of the Perpendicular period, probably 15th-century, consisting of an octagonal basin the sides of which are decorated with deeply-carved panels with tracery frames around varied symbols (heads, floral, etc.), the panels set between mouldings at top and bottom; graded underbowl chamfer with symbols and motifs at the angles, one of them actually a human figure lying down, the others now head-less angels; the octagonal stem is open-work decorated with Ogee windows; the octagonal splaying lower base has very worn motifs at the angles, probably floral rather than figural; narrow octagonal plinth, appears modern. The font is raised on a platform decorated with the colourful tiles that adorn the floor of this part of the church.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006, p. 531