Marksbury / Markesbury / Markbury
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
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BBL01: design element - motifs - scallop
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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BBL02: design element - motifs - groove
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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CR01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 12406MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located at the A39-A368 crossroads, 6 km from Keynsham, 11 km from Bath
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: other such in Somerset, Devon, Pembrokeshire, etc.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.alltecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font.
Font Notes:
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Noted in Pevsner (1958): Norman, of block-capital shape." Noted in Thurlby (2006) as a baptismal font of the Norman period in the cushion-capital style [NB: 'Markbury' in Thurlby]. The baptismal font consists of a square basin with scalloped lower side, the scallops delineated with an ornamental grove; it is raised on a cylindrical pedestal base decorated with a roll moulding at the centre ring; the lower base is octagonal, and the whole is raised on a small square plinth. The square inner basin well is lead lined, the lining modern. The font has a finish that appears to indicate it has been re-tooled or refinished with power tools.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: lead lining [modern]
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Somerset and Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958
Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006