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design element - architectural - base

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Image Source: photograph by Brian Andrews, Hobart, Australia

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design element - architectural - capital

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design element - architectural - capital

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design element - architectural - capital

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design element - architectural - capital

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design element - architectural - capital

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design element - architectural - capital

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view of basin - interior

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view of basin - spandrel - side 1

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view of basin - spandrel - side 2

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view of basin - spandrel - side 8

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph [by Paul S.?] in Tripadvisor [https://www.tripadvisor.ca/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g255097-d592965-i118060318-St_Mary_s_Cathedral-Hobart_Greater_Hobart_Tasmania.html] [accessed 5 July 2023]

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Source caption: "It is without doubt the oldest, the various details pointing to its having been carved sometime between the years 1170 and 1200."

Scene Description: Source caption: "It is without doubt the oldest, the various details pointing to its having been carved sometime between the years 1170 and 1200."

Image Source: digital photograph 8 June 2019 in Brian Andrews' HERITAGE TREASURES: 12th Century Baptismal font, 8 June 2019 [https://hobart.catholic.org.au/2019/06/08/heritage-treasures-12th-century-baptismal-font/] [accessed 5 July 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13609HOB

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Cathedral Church of St. Mary (RC)

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: 180 Harrington St, Hobart TAS 7000, Australia -- Tel.: +61 3 6234 4463

Country Name: Australia

Location: Tasmania

Directions to Site: Located off (W) of highway 3, on the W side of the mouth of the Derwent river, in SE Tasmania

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hobart

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century / 19th century (mid?), Medieval? / Victorian?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Brian Andrews, Heritage Officer, Archdiocese of Hobart, Tasmania, for his help with the documentation of this font, and for his photographs of the object. We are also grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font

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The CATHNEWS website (June 2, 2008) reports: "A $6 million facelift for Hobart's St Mary's Cathedral has highlighted its historic baptismal font which may be Norman and date back to the 9th century. "More than likely it's a Norman font, dating back to perhaps around the ninth century, we're not sure," Cathedral administrator, Fr Brian Nichols, told ABC News. "Bishop Wilson, the first Catholic bishop of Hobart Town brought it with him, he may have brought it with him on the ship."" The font is actually a very nice bucket-shaped basin in the Transitional and Early English styles, beautifully decorated with a blind arcade of round arches decorated with foliage motifs on the arches themselves and in the spandrels; the capitals and the bases of the coloumns of the arcade are also decorated with varied patterns, as are the columns themselves (some plain, others with torsade, nested chevron, etc.) It is precisely the slender colonnettes, together with the shallowness of the basin well that suggest this as a 19th-century Victorian work in the best early Gothic style from England. [NB: according to the Archdiocese (Roman Catholic) of Hobart's web site [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dhoba.html] [accessed 17 August 2008], Robert William Willson (Wilson) was appointed Bishop of Hobart on 22 April 1842 and resigned 16 February 1866 -- these mid-19th century dates would suit perfectly the Victorian pedigree of the font]. Noted and illustrated in Brian Andrews' HERITAGE TREASURES: 12th Century Baptismal font, 8 June 2019 [https://hobart.catholic.org.au/2019/06/08/heritage-treasures-12th-century-baptismal-font/] [accessed 5 July 2023]: "It is without doubt the oldest, the various details pointing to its having been carved sometime between the years 1170 and 1200." A communication from Pol Herman (e-mail of 1 October 2022) provided further documentation on the nature of the font, including Nicholas Dean Brodie's article Relics of the Tasmanian Gothic: Medieval Artefacts in Medievalist Australia, in LIMINA: A Journal in Historical and Cultural Studies [Brodie-article.pdf] [accessed 5 July 2023], which argues that it is a medieval font restored in the 19th century: "apparently a Norman-era baptismal font, was only recently identified as being ancient." [NB: views of the interior of the basin might help to decide one way or the other, even if the interior was re-tooled in the Victorian period].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: -42.881147, 147.319248

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 52′ 52.13″ S, 147° 19′ 9.29″ E

UTM: 55G 526071 5252334

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone?

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood

Notes: round and flat, with metal hinges and handle; modern