Idsworth

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UB01: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8

Scene Description: unlike the basin, the carving here appears to be the original; notice the fractured stem [cf. FontNotes]
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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 font and cover

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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
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view of church exterior

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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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INFORMATION

Font ID: 17571IDS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1400?
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century [re-tooled basin?], Perpendicular [altered?]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: the font at nearby Chalton [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Chapel of St. Hubert
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Hubert of Liège [aka Hubertus]
Site Location: Hampshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 4 km E of Horndean, near the West Sussex border
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Portsmouth
Additional Comments: damaged font / altered font? the basin sides appear to have been re-tooled or re-carved
Font Notes:
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-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.