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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
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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B02: design element - motifs - floral and foliage
Scene Description: some alone, some with the blank shields
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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BU01: design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: a narrow band of
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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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
Font ID: 15532WID
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Font Location in Church: Inside the new church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 16 km S of Nottingham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham
Additional Comments: moved font / re-cycled font from the old church
Font Notes:
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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, p. 232 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 20 October 2009]