Pontesbury / Pantesberi

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BBU01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: only part of the original remains

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BU01: design element - motifs - scallop - trumpet scallop

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BU02: design element - motifs - roll moulding

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view of basin - interior

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font - northeast side

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view of font - south side

Scene Description: the whiter stone is the original; the reddish parts of the font are the restoration

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view of font - west side

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view of font and cover in context

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view of font cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16221PON
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. George
Church Patron Saints: St. George
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 12 km SW of Shrewsbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [restored], Norman [altered]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Robert Pither, webmaster, www.stgeorgespontesbury.co.uk, for the information on, and photographs of this font
Anderson (1864) writes: "This was originally a Saxon collegiate church". Newman & Pevsner (2006) note: "Font. Circular, scalloped on its underside." Noted and illustrated in the Parish website [http://www.stgeorgespontesbury.co.uk/About/History/Guide.html] [accessed 23 March 2010]: "The old Norman font, formerly at the west end, was moved close to its original location in 2003 - in centre of the aisle - is of a good size with deep scalloping below the bowl. The font, which may not have originally been in the church, was bought by Charles Drury (Rector of the second portion); it was repaired and restored to the church in 1857. The repair to this 12th century article can be seen with the larger darker piece of stonework below the bowl." The font, as it appears after restoration, consists of a roughly cylindrical basin decorated with parallel mouldings at the upper rim, and trumpet scallops at the underbowl that end in a roll moulding; broad circular stem with a splaying moulded lower base; on a round plinth with kneeling stone. The wooden cover consists of a flat round paltform with four stylised vertical ribs. A part of the basin is original; the rest, as well as the base and plinth, are part of the restoration. [NB: The Builder (issue of 29 January 1870: 92) reports a modern font made by Mr. Yates, the contractor, in the new mission school church of Asterley, near Pontesbury].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 8 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 56 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 72 cm*
Basin Depth: 24 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 109 cm* [includes 19 cm plinth]
Notes on Measurements: * [measurements courtesy of Robert Pither]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round, with four stylised vertical ribs

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