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Tullie House Museum : 1902.18.29
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Painting, watercolour, Torpenhow Font, at St Michael and All Angels Church, Torpenhow, Cumberland, by William Gershom Collingwood, 1899.
Study of a font with carved decoration of interwoven arches above interlacing bands within which are set trefoiled twigs; the stem bears heraldic devices. The font is Norman.
Drawn to illustrate Notes on the Early Sculptured Crosses, Shrines and Monuments in the Present Diocese of Carlisle, by Rev William Slater Calverley, published by T Wilson, Kendal 1899; opposite p.271.
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WGC Torpenhow 30.6.99
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Torpenhow Font.
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