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B01: design element - motifs - floral - rosette - in a circle - beaded-tape
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: engraving in Anderson (1864)
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BBU01: design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving in Anderson (1864)
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Scene Description: the west end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving in Anderson (1864)
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
FontID: 14307COU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 10-11 km NW of Much Wenlock, 13 km S of Shrewsbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, near the entranceway
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Font Notes:
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Moule (1837) notes a font "of considerable antiquity, and is sculptured with foliage and roses in circles; the lower part is quite plain." Illustrated in Anderson (1864), who notes that the earliest mention found of this church is in 1216. Noted in the 'Salopian shreds and patches' (issue of 21 August 1878: 82) as Norman. Noted in Newman & Pevsner (2006): "Font. Norman, tub-shaped, with big rosettes, and a folage strip above." The 'rosettes' are inscribed and a beaded-tape circle; the splaying basi is broad, round and plain.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864
Billing, Joanna, The Hidden Places of Devon, [Exeter?]: Travel Publishing, 2003
Moule, Thomas, The English counties delineated; or, A topographical description of England [...], London: George Virtue, 1837 [vol. 2]