Ron Baxter is a medieval art historian and the Research Director of the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture.
Hertfordshire, England
Joined September 2014
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George Zarnecki's 1950 PhD thesis, Regional Schools of English Sculpture in the Twelfth Century: the Southern School and the Herefordshire School is at last available online (text only) thanks to @crsbi. Go to bit.ly/3GFqORw
St Peter's Lainston, where the courtesan Elizabeth Chudleigh married Augustus Hervey, later Earl of Bristol. She married again, unfortunately while the Earl was still alive and was found guilty of bigamy by a jury of her peers. @crsbi report online crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=1371…
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The wonderful Tournai font at #EastMeon, now recorded for @crsbi and online at crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=1265…
I love waterleaf capitals. and here is a good one from the chancel window at #Ipsden. @crsbi report now online at crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=1196…
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Lead fonts using the same patterns at Long Wittenham and Warborough. @crsbi Warborough report at crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=1196… with link to Long Wittenham in the Comments section
This font was surplus to requirements when St Mary's Watford was restored in 1871, and was given to St James's Watford Fields. When that was closed in 1972 they gave it back @crsbi site report at crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=1096…
This #Romanesque? pillar piscina has been in St Mary's Higham Ferrers since the late 1980s. Not in #Pevsner or #ListDescription. Is it real? Have a look @crsbi site report crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=1215…
Holy Cross, #Shrewsbury, formerly the Benedictine Abbey. A great #Romanesque church now online @crsbi Site report at crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=1505…
This is the original entrance to a well-known @Romanesque building. Can you identify it? For the answer, follow the link crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=1273
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The boar hunt relief at Clifton Hampden. Now online @crsbi on crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=1196…
High voltage 11thc tympanum at Sandford-on-Thames! #doorwayabuse. @crsbi site report now available at crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=1159…
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Pevsner called it the most sumptuous font in #Shropshire. This is #Stottesdon, a work of the #Herefordshire School, @crsbi site report now online at crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=1331…
Interested in #PriorandGardner ? This volume has at last seen the light of day (with a paper by @Baxter47Ron )
This is #Llanyblodwel in #Shropshire, designed by the Vicar in 1847. Perhaps he envisaged a rocket to heaven, but claimed that it was based on Freiburg Minster. Its font is the subject of some disagreement #FontsonFriday @crsbi report online at crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=3426
A dazzling display of late #Romanesque #fret and #chevron - hyphenated, point-to-point, back-to-back - at #Edstaston. @crsbi report now online at crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=5441
Another #FontsOnFriday at #Hodnet #Shropshire. Looks sort of 12thc but some of the motifs on the panels look wrong. Pevsner thought 12thc in origin but embellished in the 17thc. Thoughts? @crsbi report online now at crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=4144
Here's the font at #Chellaston. It was moved away from the drain, so an alternative drainage solution was needed. @crsbi site report now online at crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=1141…
