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Scene Description: the adze-work pattern on the basin sides

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16404NEE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the B4365, just S of Cleobury Mortimer, 20 km from Ludlow and Kidderminster, near the border with Worcester [Coordinates: 52° 20′ 51.58″ N, 2° 29′ 56.04″ W 52.34766, -2.4989] [Diocese of Hereford]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in fron of the pulpit
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Anderson (1864) notes the fhe first reference to Pope Nicholas taxation of 1291. The font is noted in Newman & Pevsner (2006): "Font. Plain tub, of the C12?". The basin is bucked-shaped, the only ornamentation being the pattern of the adze-work all around; on a round lower base and a circular plinth with kneeling stone. The wooden font cover is flat and round, with metal decoration and ring handle; modern. Modern too are the two elements of the base of the font.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [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