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St Mary's Upavon, C12th-C13th. As blue as my chilled skin. 
St Mary's has a splendid late romanesque #FontsOnFriday with a beautiful annunciation, Gabriel, Mary and her lilly.
The nave was restored by Seddon, the chabcel by Wyatt, and tge East window is by Henry Holliday, for the William Morris Company anout 1890.
The font at Castlemartin is 900 yrs old, but the tool marks are still plain to see: from the diagonal saw marks to the centre-point and marking out of the compass in the scallop decoration.
We'll never know who made this font, but these details bring the past a little closer.
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We'll never know who made this font, but these details bring the past a little closer.
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The font is pretty monumental. It’s a square cushion bowl on a cylindrical stem with a pretty scalloped trim to the bowl and a foliate design at the edges.
St Michael’s, Castlemartin in Pembs is a monumental church, so it’s fitting that it has such a substantial old font.
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St Michael’s, Castlemartin in Pembs is a monumental church, so it’s fitting that it has such a substantial old font.
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In fact, a few of the churches we own in Pembrokeshire are whoppers. They’re almost organic in form: tall tapering towers reaching to the sky, accretions and ruinations of aisles, chapels, transepts and vestries, tangles of chimneys, bounding arcades, bricked up doorways…
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Salle church, Norfolk.
A church revered by many as one of the finest late medieval examples in England, and where even the mason's marks are things of beauty.
A church revered by many as one of the finest late medieval examples in England, and where even the mason's marks are things of beauty.
Salle church is also unusual in having surviving external graffiti.
'James A Dunnett & John Dunnett 1754'
Making their mark for all to see.
'James A Dunnett & John Dunnett 1754'
Making their mark for all to see.
And definitely a hard one to beat for #FontsOnFriday
The massive medieval font and font cover from Salle in Norfolk. I think we can safely say that this one is still in situ...
The massive medieval font and font cover from Salle in Norfolk. I think we can safely say that this one is still in situ...
