Clifton nr. Preston / Clifton nr. Kirkham

Results: 3 records

B01: human figure - 3

Scene Description: on the front side

B02: human figure - dancing or jumping

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B03: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: on several parts of the basin

INFORMATION

FontID: 16502CLI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Evangelist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Evangelist
Country Name: England
Location: Lancashire, North West
Directions to Site: Located off the A583 (Blackpool Rd), WNW of Preston, ESE of Kirkham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Blackburn
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 3rd - 5th century [re-cycled altar?], Anglo-Roman [altered]
Noted and illustrated in Hartwell & Pevsner (2009) in the 19th-century church that replaced an older church: "The most interesting item is the font, presumably the 'scandalous trough' installed in the C17. It is very crude, very abraded, with three figures carved in high relief on the front and dancing figures on the sides. It has been identified as a Roman altar to the Mothes (goddesses), almost certainly from the fort near Kirkham, a few miles away."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: rectangular
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: metal?,
Apparatus: no
Notes: a small ovel metal (?) cover with a tiny Latin cross finial; appears modern

REFERENCES

Hartwell, Clare, Lancashire North, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2009