Radstone

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Results: 3 records

B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - double arcade

Scene Description: the south side of the font: the decoration is described in the CRSBI as "fish scale ornament" [cf. Font notes]

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view of church interior - nave - looking southwest

Scene Description: the top of the font is visible at the west end of the south aisle, under the window

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view of font - southeast side

Scene Description: notice the large new-stone insert at the upper rim, probably damage related to the old font staples

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ron Baxter and CRSBI, 2009

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14527RAD
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Lawrence
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A43, N of Brackley
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Norman? Circular, with two tiers of flat round arches, the upper standing on the apexes of the lower." Described and illustrated in The Corpus of Romanesque Scultpure in Britain and Ireland (2008) which, however, describes the decoration as "two rows of fish scale ornament - large scales outlined by flat fillets"

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Rim Thickness: 9.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 49 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 68 cm*
Basin Total Height: 33 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 72 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 112 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [measurments a/p CRSBI]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat; appears modern

REFERENCES

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2009-04-29 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973