West Haddon / Ecdone / Eddone / Edone

Results: 21 records

B01: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - detail

Scene Description: a haloed demi-figure in a font or bath; the similarity of the vessel with this font cannot be casual

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 July 1998 by BSI

B01: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in a font

south side of the basin: John the Baptist (?), with a book in the left hand, while the right points to Christ; a star [of Bethlehem] appears between the left figure and Christ; in the centre of the scene is a square font (?) with an upper side decorated with a row of large beads, just like this font; in this font (?) is the upper body of a haloed figure; the carving is too crude and eroded to determine whether it is a child Christ or a grown-up; on the right side of the scene an angel with extended wings holds up the robes for Christ. Above the scene the upper end of the basin side is decorated with a row of large beads

Scene Description: south side of the basin: John the Baptist (?), with a book in the left hand, while the right points to Christ; a star [of Bethlehem] appears between the left figure and Christ; in the centre of the scene is a square font (?) with an upper side decorated with a row of large beads, just like this font; in this font (?) is the upper body of a haloed figure; the carving is too crude and eroded to determine whether it is a child Christ or a grown-up; on the right side of the scene an angel with extended wings holds up the robes for Christ. Above the scene the upper end of the basin side is decorated with a row of large beads

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 July 1998 by BSI

B02: Christ - Christ in Majesty - in a mandorla - holding book in left hand - right hand raised in benediction - angel - eagle

east side of the basin: to the sides of the Maiestas Domini: a haloed angel (the symbol of Matthew?) with extended wings on the left; to the right of the mandorla is a haloed eagle (the symbol of St. John the Evangelist?) with extended wings; a large rectangular block has been cut out of the stone, perhaps to locate a lock of an old cover; deformed heads with vegetation stemming from their mouths at the left and right corners; row of large beads above the scene

Scene Description: east side of the basin: to the sides of the Maiestas Domini: a haloed angel (the symbol of Matthew?) with extended wings on the left; to the right of the mandorla is a haloed eagle (the symbol of St. John the Evangelist?) with extended wings; a large rectangular block has been cut out of the stone, perhaps to locate a lock of an old cover; deformed heads with vegetation stemming from their mouths at the left and right corners; row of large beads above the scene

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 July 1998 by BSI

B02: Christ - Christ in Majesty - in a mandorla - holding book in left hand - right hand raised in benediction - angel - eagle - detail

Scene Description: showing the scar left on this side; was it to place a lock for the cover? what else?

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 July 1998 by BSI

B03: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity

north side of the basin: the Virgin lies to the left with the hand of God coming over her; to the far right is seated Joseph watching over the child in the manger; the whole scene is framed in an architectural setting that includes two round arch-heads with beaded-tape pattern; in the spandrel of the two arches is a tower top and, the left arch-head rests on a tower-like edifice that is also the headboard of Mary's bed; as in many northern Nativity scenes, the bed is very elaborate, with torsade column and arcaded lower part; in this case the same decoration has been extended to tha manger in which the infant Christ lies. Joseph sits facing Mary and Christ, his head bowed and his hands in prayer. At the top of the scene, a row of bead motif, which also decorates the other sides of the basin. At the left and right angles are large heads with vegetation stemming from their mouths.

Scene Description: north side of the basin: the Virgin lies to the left with the hand of God coming over her; to the far right is seated Joseph watching over the child in the manger; the whole scene is framed in an architectural setting that includes two round arch-heads with beaded-tape pattern; in the spandrel of the two arches is a tower top and, the left arch-head rests on a tower-like edifice that is also the headboard of Mary's bed; as in many northern Nativity scenes, the bed is very elaborate, with torsade column and arcaded lower part; in this case the same decoration has been extended to tha manger in which the infant Christ lies. Joseph sits facing Mary and Christ, his head bowed and his hands in prayer. At the top of the scene, a row of bead motif, which also decorates the other sides of the basin. At the left and right angles are large heads with vegetation stemming from their mouths.

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 July 1998 by BSI

B04: New Testament - Passion of Christ - entry into Jerusalem

west side of the basin: a figure on horseback riding towards the right holds up a palm; to the right, a figure facing left is holding up palms; above is the row of large beads thta decorates all side of this font; on the right and left angles are deformed heads with vegetation stemming from their mouths

Scene Description: west side of the basin: a figure on horseback riding towards the right holds up a palm; to the right, a figure facing left is holding up palms; above is the row of large beads thta decorates all side of this font; on the right and left angles are deformed heads with vegetation stemming from their mouths

Image Source: edited version of a photograph taken 4 April 1983 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

B05: head - vegetation stemming from the mouth - 4

one such at each angle of the basin; too eroded to determine whether animal or human, a couple of them look feline but the other two do not

Scene Description: one such at each angle of the basin; too eroded to determine whether animal or human, a couple of them look feline but the other two do not

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 July 1998 by BSI

design element - motifs - ball, bead or pellet

Scene Description: a row of large beads or balls, below the upper rim, on all four sides

Image Source: edited version of a photograph taken 4 April 1983 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

design element - motifs - floral or foliage

Scene Description: on the spandrels around the opening of the basin

Image Source: digital image in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1279/] [accessed 23 February 2015]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of basin - detail

Image Source: edited version of a photograph taken 4 April 1983 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

view of basin - detail

Image Source: edited version of a photograph taken 4 April 1983 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: this head not very feline-looking

Image Source: edited version of a photograph taken 4 April 1983 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

view of basin - east side

Scene Description: Majestas Domini

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 January 2009 by Walwyn [http://www.flickr.com/photos/overton_cat/] [accessed 26 March 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission + Creative Commons Licence [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/] [accessed 25 March 2009]

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital image in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1279/] [accessed 23 February 2015]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of basin - north side

Scene Description: Nativity

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 January 2009 by Walwyn [http://www.flickr.com/photos/overton_cat/] [accessed 26 March 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission + Creative Commons Licence [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/] [accessed 25 March 2009]

view of basin - south and west sides

Scene Description: south side at the top, west side at the bottom

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Bond (1908)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of basin - south side

Scene Description: Baptism or First Bath

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 January 2009 by Walwyn [http://www.flickr.com/photos/overton_cat/] [accessed 26 March 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission + Creative Commons Licence [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/] [accessed 25 March 2009]

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 July 1998 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital image of an engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font

Scene Description: south side [NB: only the basin is original]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 July 1998 by BSI

view of font and cover - southeast side

Scene Description: only the basin is original; the rest is a modern replacement

Image Source: edited version of a photograph taken 4 April 1983 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

INFORMATION

FontID: 00107WES

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: High St, West Haddon, Northamptonshire NN6 7AP, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off the A428, off the M1, 18 km NW of Northampton, about 40 km S of Leicester

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough [formerly in the Diocese of Lincoln, and that of Dorchester]

Historical Region: Hundred of Guilsborough [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the S aisle, near the S door

Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Walwyn, of Midland Churches [http://professor-moriarty.com/moriarties/midland_churches], and to Timothy Marlow, for their photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view

There are three entries for [West] Haddon [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP6371/west-haddon/] [accessed 23 February 2015], but neither mentions cleric or church in it. A font here is noted and illustrated in Paley (1844) as one of several "large cubical blocks, more or less adorned with sculptured decorations" of the Norman period. Described and illustrated in Parker (1849): "The font is Norman, square, with sculptures representing events in the life of our Saviour. [...] The Norman font shews that the present church is not the first which has occupied this site." In Whellan (1849), after Parker. In Cox & Harvey (1907), Bond (1908), Wall (1912), Tyrrell-Green (1928), Mee (1945), Pevsner & Cherry (1973) and Nordström (1984). On-site notes: what remains of the old Norman font is the square block of the basin. The current base made of polygonal columns (broad central and thinner corner shafts) is probably from between 1844 (Paley showed the basin standing on a square block of stone in his book of 1844, unpaged) and Bond's illustration dates to ca. 1908. The inside of the basin is lined with lead and has a central drain, although Paley reported it as having no drain at all. He also identified the stone as "white sandstone". The outer north side of the basin depicts the Nativity of Christ; on the south side is the Baptism of Christ; on the west side is a representation of Palm Sunday: a figure on horseback holds a palm and a figure before the horse is laying out palms; on the East side is Christ in Majesty, in the centre, with an angel on his right and an eagle on his left, the symbols of two of the Evangelists. According to Paley (ibid.) the font was moved since it "formerly stood in the south aisle, west of the south door". Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2015) with the following commentary: "Zarnecki (1951) dated the font c.1120, associating its style with that of the historiated capitals at Swell Minster. Stone (1955) linked its style to the font at the Cluniac priory of Lenton (Notts) which also depicts scenes from Christ's life, a connection rejected as "not convincing" by Zarnecki (1998). Drake (2002) noted the idiosyncratic treatment of the biblical scenes and considered the Entry into Jerusalem to be unique in English baptismal iconography. His discussion of the iconography is useful."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.339783, -1.0782

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 20′ 23.22″ N, 1° 4′ 41.52″ W

UTM: 30U 630925 5800569

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: lead-lined [NB: according to Paley, it had no drainage ca. 1844 (Paley, 1844, unpaged). NB: since at that time the well was lined with lead and the basin was mounted on a block of stone as base, the drain may not have been visible]

Rim Thickness: 6-19 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 58 cm* / 59 cm**

Basin Depth: 25 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 36 cm*

Basin Total Height: 36 cm*

Height of Base: 82 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 118 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): (plinth is 16 cm) 134

Trapezoidal Basin: 72 x 73 cm* / 72 x 74 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** CRSBI (2015)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: polygonal base with openwork pyramid atop; metal cross finial; modern

REFERENCES

Allen, J. Romilly, "Notes on Early Christian Symbolism", N.S., VI, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1884, pp. 380-464; p. 420fn3, 420fn4

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Clapham, Alfred William, English Romanesque Architecture after the Conquest, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2015-02-23 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Kroesen, Justin E.A., The Interior of the medieval village church = Het middeleeuwse Dorpskerkinterieur, Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters, 2004

Mee, Arthur, The King's England: Northamptonshire, country of spires and stately homes, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1945

Nordström, Folke, Mediaeval Baptismal Fonts: An Iconographical Study, Stockholm: Universitetet i Umeå, 1984

Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844

Parker, John Henry, Architectural notices of the churches of the Archdeaconry of Northampton: Deaneries of Higham Ferrers and Haddon, London; Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1849

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928

Wall, James Charles, Porches and Fonts, London: W. Gardner, Danton & Co., 1912

Whellan, William, History, gazetteer, and directory of Northamptonshire, comprising a general survey of the county, and a history of the Diocese of Peterborough: with separate [...], London: Whittaker & Co., Ave Maria Lane, 1849