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More model informationDescribed by Nikolaus Pevsner in 1972 as “a mighty and barbaric piece,” the baptismal font at North Grimston (E. Yorkshire) dominates the nave of its contemporary early 12th-century church. The drum of North Grimston has a cable molded rim and a series of scenes within an arcade: Christ’s Descent from the Cross, the Last Supper with Christ enthroned, a geometric panel, and an ecclesiastical figure commonly attributed as St Nicholas after the medieval dedication of the church.
The sheer size of the North Grimston font—nearly a metre in diameter—advertised the expense of quarrying and transporting the calcareous grit (finegrained sandstone) from appropriately sized beds in North Yorkshire.
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Oct 1st 2016
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