
Ron Baxter
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Ron Baxter is a medieval art historian and the Research Director of the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture.
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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 Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain &Ireland report online at crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=34…




Interested in #PriorandGardner ? This volume has at last seen the light of day (with a paper by Ron Baxter )



Pevsner called it the most sumptuous font in #Shropshire. This is #Stottesdon, a work of the #Herefordshire School, Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain &Ireland site report now online at crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=13…


High voltage 11thc tympanum at Sandford-on-Thames! #doorwayabuse. Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain &Ireland site report now available at crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=11…


The boar hunt relief at Clifton Hampden. Now online Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain &Ireland on crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=11…



Holy Cross, #Shrewsbury, formerly the Benedictine Abbey. A great #Romanesque church now online Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain &Ireland Site report at crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=15…


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 Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain &Ireland site report crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=12…


Progress. After 4 years 'Chain Stores' finally sent off to the publisher Liverpool University Press. A selection courtesy of HE Archive and The British Newspaper Archive.


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 Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain &Ireland site report at crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=10…


Lead fonts using the same patterns at Long Wittenham and Warborough. Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain &Ireland Warborough report at crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=11… with link to Long Wittenham in the Comments section


I love waterleaf capitals. and here is a good one from the chancel window at #Ipsden. Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain &Ireland report now online at crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=11…



The wonderful Tournai font at #EastMeon, now recorded for Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain &Ireland and online at crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=12…


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. Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain &Ireland report online crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=13…

