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UB01: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
![unlike the basin, the carving here appears to be the original; notice the fractured stem [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1110815054_compressed.png)
Scene Description: unlike the basin, the carving here appears to be the original; notice the fractured stem [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trish Steel, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 11 May 2008 by Trish Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/830841] [accessed 10 August 2011]
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view of basin
Scene Description: the sides and underbowl of the basin appear re-carved ort drastically re-tooled; not so the upper rim
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trish Steel, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 11 May 2008 by Trish Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/830841] [accessed 10 August 2011]
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view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trish Steel, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2008 by Trish Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/830774] [accessed 10 August 2011]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trish Steel, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2008 by Trish Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/830831] [accessed 10 August 2011]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trish Steel, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2008 by Trish Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/830841] [accessed 10 August 2011]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 17571IDS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Chapel of St. Hubert
Church Patron Saints: St. Hubert of Liège
[aka Hubertus]
Country Name: England
Location: Hampshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located 4 km E of Horndean, near the West Sussex border
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Portsmouth
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1400?
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century [re-tooled basin?], Perpendicular [altered?]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: the font at nearby Chalton [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 3, 1908), in its entry for nearby Chalton notes that the font at the latter church "closely resembles the font at Idsworth a few miles away. Both fonts have also been broken at the base of the bowl, by tradition in the civil wars."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 644293 5643199
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with a low lectern-like handle
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-08-10 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.