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BU01: design element - patterns - ribbed or striated
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Image Source: engraving in Anderson (1864)
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R01: design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 3
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UB01: design element - motifs - moulding
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Image Source: engraving in Anderson (1864)
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Image Source: engraving in Anderson (1864)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 16220HAN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Thomas
Church Patron Saints: St. Thomas
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the A488, 5 km SW of Shrewsbury town centre
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Baptismal font illustrated in Anderson (1864). Noted in Newman & Pevsner (2006): "Font. Circular, Norman, fluted on the underside." The font consists of a hemispherical basin decorated with parallel mouldings at the upper rim side, and a striated or ribbed pattern on the bottom of the underbowl; on a round base with moulded sides; stands on a two-step octagonal plinth that is probably modern [NB: the church building is modern, 18th- and 19th-century. We have no documentary evidence of the origin of this font, but there is a reference to an object reported in the 'Salopian shreds and patches' (issue of 5 June 1878: 51) at Moat Hall, about 2-3 kms from Hanwood: "In the garden there is a stone bowl about eighteen inches in diameter, very peculiarly shaped, possibly an ancient church font or a holy water stoup".]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Notes on Measurements: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864
Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006