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R01: design element - motifs - moulding
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INFORMATION
FontID: 13926DEN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Country Name: England
Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located near Sedbergh, 15 km NE of Kirby Lonsdale
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 17th century,
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Phil Brown, of www.docbrown.info/docspics/dales/dspage28.htm, for his photograph of this font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Noted in Glynne's 6 May 1862 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The font is small." The font is octagonal, with an upper moulded section that serves as basin, the rest vertical and plain. The box-like pyramidal cover is probably contemporary, 17th-century?
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: Octagonal truncated pyramid shape, with some crenellated pattern on the lower and upper ends
REFERENCES
Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007