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B01: design element - patterns - diaper

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16451SHR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of Old St. Chad

Church Patron Saints: St. Chad [aka, Ceaadda, Cedd, Ceoddi]

Country Name: England

Location: Shropshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located on College Hill

Font Location in Church: In the porch?

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Newman & Pevsner (2006): "Font (outside). Norman. Circular, with a diaper pattern." The round basin is almost cylindrical, with a slight taperin inwards; tall upper rim with a pattern of diamond/lozenge shapes with dots in them, the rest of the sides covered in a diaper pattern. [NB: the new church of St. Chad, located on St. Chad's Terrace, is a relatively modern grey marble fluted one that was brought from Malpas, Cheshire, in 1843. It may have had a silver font or basin at the time of Charles Darwin's baptism in November 1809. The new church dates from the early 1790s and was built to replace Old St. Chad's when the latter became dilapidated and actually collapsed in 1788]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: round

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006