Siston / Sistone / Syston / Systun / Syton / Sytone

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - 12

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design element - motifs - foliage

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design element - motifs - scroll

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design element - motifs - scroll

Scene Description: tapestry sample using the scroll motif from this font

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human figure - male - seated - 6?

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information - sign/label

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view of basin - detail

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view of basin - projection

Scene Description: a comparative re-created projection of the basin program

view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum

Scene Description: Norman tympanum

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of font

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph by Vera Baber

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph from Webb, Mary & Gardner, Pamela, The History of St Anne's Church Syston (August 2008: 6), in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LeadBaptismalFontSiston.jpg] [accessed 25 August 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00112SIS

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Anne

Church Patron Saints: St. Anne

Church Location: Siston Ln, Bristol BS16 9LS, UK -- Tel.: +44 117 967 2724

Country Name: England

Location: Gloucestershire, South West

Directions to Site: Located 10 km E of Bristol, to the W, towards Pucklechurch

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bristol

Historical Region: Hundred of Pucklechurch

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: ca. 1150-1175?

Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Norman

Workshop/Group/Artisan: lead font

Cognate Fonts: Frampton-on-Severn, Oxenhall, Tidenham, Lancaut and Sandhurst (Gloucestershire) are said to have been made from the same mould.

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, and to Vera Baber, for the photographs of this church and font.

Church Notes: Very nice Norman tympanum in the south portal

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Siston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST6875/siston/] [accessed 26 February 2020] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font here is listed in Paley (1844), Batty (1848), Cox (1875), in Andre (1882) and in Lethaby as a "leaden font". Described in Bond (1908) as a baptismal font made of lead and dated to the late 12th or early 13th century. Bond (ibid.) rejects earlier claims to pre-Conquest dates by Freeman and Ormerod for this type of font, his argument being that the dating should be based on the evidence of later motifs on the fonts, rather than on the earlier surviving motifs appearing on them. In Fryer (1908). Described and illustrated in Zarnecki (1957) as a a lead font, "one of the six identical fonts made with the use of the same blocks" and dated to the third quarter of the twelfth century. [cf. Index entry for Frampton-on-Severn for a similar design]. There is a local [unsubstantiated] claim that the stone base may date from Saxon times. Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. One of six Gloucestershire lead fonts, all cast from the same pattern, probably in the late C12 […] treatment suggests that the craftsman may have been copying Saxon work., but the architectural detail precludes a date much before c. 1170: spiral- and zigzag-fluted columns, frieze with anthemion decoration. Later stone stem and base."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.475437, -2.449615

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 28′ 31.57″ N, 2° 26′ 58.61″ W

UTM: 30U 538224 5702841

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal [basin only], lead [basin only]

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (inside rim): 64.77 cm*

Basin Total Height: 55.88 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in Fryer (1908: 281)]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: round and flat; appears modern

REFERENCES

André, J. Lewis, "Leaden Fonts in Sussex", 32, Surrey Archaeological Collections, relating to the history and antiquities of the county, 1882

Batty, Robert Eaton, Some particulars connected with the history of baptismal fonts: being a paper read at the quarterly general meeting of the Architectural and Archaeological Society for the County of Buckingham, London: F. & J. Rivington, 1848

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

Cox, John Charles, 1875-1877

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

Fryer, Alfred C., "The Gloucestershire fonts", 31(1908); 34(1911); 40(1917); 41(1918); 42(1920), Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1908, 1911, 1920, pp. 31 (277-281); 34 (195-207); 40(39-56); 41 (27-35); 42 (69-88); r["References"]

Lethaby, William Richard, Leadwork, old and ornamental, and for the most part English [...] with illustrations, London; New York: Macmillan & co., 1893

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

Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002

Zarnecki, George, English Romanesque Lead Sculpture: Lead Fonts of the Twelfth Century, London: A. Tiranti, 1957