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Object type: Font
Measurements:
H. 58 cm (22.75 in)
Diameter 63 cm (24.75 in)
Circumference 225 > 210 cm (88.5 > 83 in)
Stone type: Poorly sorted, clast-supported, feldspathic sandstone. The clasts, varying from sub-angular to sub-rounded, are dominantly clear quartz in the range 0.3 to 1.0 mm, but are mostly in the range 0.4 to 0.7 mm. Kinderscout Grit?, Hebden Formation, Millstone Grit Group, Carboniferous (C.R.B.)
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ill. 466
Corpus volume reference: Vol 13 p. 254-255
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A roll moulding encircles the upper edge of the font. It is decorated around its circumference with a series of single stepped-base columns resting on a plain wide flat band that encircles the lower edge. The columns are carved in relatively low relief and support arches springing from plain capitals/imposts. The arcade thus formed consists of eight niches of roughly equal proportions. These are plain and well-dressed at the same depth as the spandrels above, showing no signs of having been carved.
Appendix A item (stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date)
See Bradbourne 6.
