Carlisle No. 1

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church exterior - west end

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font

Scene Description: in the 1811 drawing by Buckler showing measurements; the font is shown as octagonal [cf. FontNotes]

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Image Source: 1811 pencil-on-paper drawing by by John Chessell Buckler (1793-1894) in the British Library Only collections [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/topdrawings/c/largeimage86053.html] [accessed 18 December 2011]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: this is probably the modern font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15920CAR
Church/Chapel: Cathedral Church
Church Location: 7 The Abbey Carlisle, Cumbria CA3 8TZ
Country Name: England
Location: Cumbria, North West
Historical Region: formerly Cumberland
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th century [altered], Perpendicular [altered]
A hexagonal font is reported in Gough (1792): "hexagon, has a cross on a shield (the arms of the see, and a rude face". There is an 1811 pencil-on-paper drawing by by John Chessell Buckler (1793-1894) [Butler must have been only 17 or 18- years old at the time] in the British Library collections [Shelfmark: Additional MS 36360 - Item number: f.207 - 19.3 x 13.1 cm] [NB: Buckler's drawing shows an octagonal font, not hexagonal]. Poole (1842) notes the font at the cathedral: "That [i.e., font] at Carlisle Cathedral is hexagonal", and a font of that shape in the Cathedral is also noted in Paley (1844). Cox (1913) writes: "The old 15th cent. font was removed to St. Paul's in 1870, but it has been much modernised". [NB: not known which 'St. Paul' this is.]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.894722, -2.938611
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 53′ 41″ N, 2° 56′ 19″ W
UTM: 30U 503937 6083078

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal
Diameter (inside rim): 57.5 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 70.625 cm*
Basin Total Height: 47.5 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 102.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [from Buckler's drawing]

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, Cumberland and Westmorland, London: George Allen & Co. Ltd., 1913
Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; r["References"]
Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844
Poole, George Ayliffe, The Appropriate Character of Church Architecture, Leeds; London: T.W. Green; Rivington, Burns, and Houlston and Stoneman, 1842