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B01: symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - pointed or cusped quatrefoil

Scene Description: more than one, in different arrangements, some with floral motifs inside the quatrefoil

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2007 by KCM76 [http://www.flickr.com/photos/kcm76/834606880/in/set-72157600863629198/] [accessed 6 January 2010]

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B02: design element - motifs - floral and foliage

Scene Description: some alone, some with the blank shields

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2007 by KCM76 [http://www.flickr.com/photos/kcm76/834606880/in/set-72157600863629198/] [accessed 6 January 2010]

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BU01: design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: a narrow band of

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2007 by KCM76 [http://www.flickr.com/photos/kcm76/834606880/in/set-72157600863629198/] [accessed 6 January 2010]

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UB01: design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases - 8

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KCM76, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2007 by KCM76 [http://www.flickr.com/photos/kcm76/834606880/in/set-72157600863629198/] [accessed 6 January 2010]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15532WID
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 16 km S of Nottingham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham
Font Location in Church: Inside the new church
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Noted in Cox (1912): "Font a 14th cent. relic of old church". Not mentioned in Pevsner & Williamson (1979). Illustrated in Flickr [http://www.flickr.com/photos/kcm76/834606880/in/set-72157600863629198/] [accessed 6 January 2010]. The font consists of a round slightly tapering basin decorated with a series of pointed quatrefoil panels inscribing shields and floral and foliage motifs on the sides; narrow band of folaige on the underbowl; the stem is a cluster of colonnettes with moulded capitals and bases around a central shaft; on a quadrangular plinth with chamfered angles.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912