Moreton Pinkney
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Ron Baxter, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/nh/morep/index.htm]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 12325MOR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A422, NW of Banbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Noted in Mee (1945): "simple round font of Norman days". Described and illustrated The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (2008). The font consists of a plain bucket-shaped basin raised on a wider quadrangular base. Not mentioned in Pevsner & Cherry (1973)
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 10 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 57 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 77 cm*
Basin Total Height: 55 cm*
Height of Base: 50 cm [calculated]
Font Height (less Plinth): 105 cm*
REFERENCES
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2006-10-26 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Mee, Arthur, The King's England: Northamptonshire, country of spires and stately homes, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1945