Bacton [error location?]

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B01: design element - motifs - interlace - beaded-tape

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Tina Manthorpe, captioned "Bacton font", in FLICKR [http://www.flickr.com/photos/84265607@N00/468386012/in/pool-68878292@N00] [accessed 12 April 2008]

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BS01: design element - motifs - foliage

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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tina Manthorpe, 2007

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Tina Manthorpe, captioned "Bacton font", in FLICKR [http://www.flickr.com/photos/84265607@N00/468386012/in/pool-68878292@N00] [accessed 12 April 2008]

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CR01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tina Manthorpe, 2007

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Tina Manthorpe, captioned "Bacton font", in FLICKR [http://www.flickr.com/photos/84265607@N00/468386012/in/pool-68878292@N00] [accessed 12 April 2008]

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CR02: design element - motifs - braid - 2-strand

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Tina Manthorpe, captioned "Bacton font", in FLICKR [http://www.flickr.com/photos/84265607@N00/468386012/in/pool-68878292@N00] [accessed 12 April 2008]

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LB01: design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tina Manthorpe, 2007

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Tina Manthorpe, captioned "Bacton font", in FLICKR [http://www.flickr.com/photos/84265607@N00/468386012/in/pool-68878292@N00] [accessed 12 April 2008]

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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tina Manthorpe, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph by Tina Manthorpe, captioned "Bacton font", in FLICKR [http://www.flickr.com/photos/84265607@N00/468386012/in/pool-68878292@N00] [accessed 12 April 2008]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13500BAC
Church/Chapel: [Parish Church?]
Directions to Site: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
error font? -- An April 2007 photograph by Tina Manthorpe, captioned "Bacton font", in FLICKR [http://www.flickr.com/photos/84265607@N00/468386012/in/pool-68878292@N00] [accessed 12 April 2008] shows a round font of tapering decorated sides and raised on a plain lower base and a round plinth with kneeling stone; the basin proper is decorated with a very well rendered interlace featuring linking twirls of broad bead-tape, with foliage in the spandrels formed by the ondulating patterns; there are two prominent mouldings at the centre ring level; the upper is a rope moulding, the lower is a two-strand braid; below these, large foliage motifs that match the smaller ones in the basin spandrels. It is possible that the upper rim of the basin may have been re-tooled, perhaps to hide the damage to it? The twirl pattern has been smoothed or filed off to wane at the upper end, not a common finish in Norman decorative patterns]. [NB: we have not been able to trace this 'Bacton' to any existing churches in Britain. The tag 'Worcestershire' is part of the metadata of the entry, but we cannot locate a Bacton in that county; the Bacton in Hereford & Worcester [formerly Herefordshire], does not correspond to this font, although the carving style would fit in the Herefordshire-style -- cf. Index entry for Bacton St. Fatih's -- Could it be a labelling error in FLICKR? -- to be completed]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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