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Tournai font BB49_00385
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Tournai font BB49_00385
ALL SAINTS CHURCH, EAST MEON, EAST MEON, EAST HAMPSHIRE, HAMPSHIRE. Detail of a Tournai font with a square bowl with carvings of figures in All Saints Church.
The image shows one whole side of the Tournai font bowl with figures and some animal faces made with shallow marks. Tournai fonts are carved from a black stone found in Tournai, Flanders. The carvings show the story of Adam and Eve, from Adams creation and the creation of Eve from Adams rib on the right side, to Eve taking fruit from a serpent on the left. The bowl sits on a circular brick shaft surrounded closely by four columns
Media ID 26525495
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