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R01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Phil Brown, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Phil Brown [http://www.docbrown.info/docspics/dales/dspage28.htm] [accessed 29 October 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 30 Oct2008)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Phil Brown, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Phil Brown [http://www.docbrown.info/docspics/dales/dspage28.htm] [accessed 29 October 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 30 Oct2008)
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Phil Brown, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by Phil Brown [http://www.docbrown.info/docspics/dales/dspage28.htm] [accessed 29 October 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 30 Oct2008)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13926DEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Site Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near Sedbergh, 15 km NE of Kirby Lonsdale
Additional Comments: permission req'd (email of 29 Oct 2008) -- rec'd by email 30 Oct 2008 (mt)
Font Notes:
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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?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Phil Brown, of www.docbrown.info/docspics/dales/dspage28.htm, for his photograph of this font
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, 158