Siston / Sistone / Syston / Systun / Syton / Sytone
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view of font and cover
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view of font and cover
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view of font
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human figure - male - seated - 6?
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - 12
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design element - motifs - scroll
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design element - motifs - foliage
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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 and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mary Webb and Pamela Garden, 2008
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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view of basin - projection
Scene Description: a comparative re-created projection of the basin program
design element - motifs - scroll
Scene Description: tapestry sample using the scroll motif from this font
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information - sign/label
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view of basin - detail
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00112SIS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1150-1175?
Font Century and Period/Style: 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.
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Anne
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Anne
Church Notes: Very nice Norman tympanum in the south portal
Church Address: Siston Ln, Bristol BS16 9LS, UK -- Tel.: +44 117 967 2724
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 10 km E of Bristol, to the W, towards Pucklechurch
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bristol
Historical Region: Hundred of Pucklechurch
Additional Comments: placename pronounced "sizeton"
Font Notes:
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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."
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.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 538224 5702841
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.475437, -2.449615
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 28′ 31.57″ N, 2° 26′ 58.61″ W
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, p. 20
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 79
- Cox, John Charles, 1875-1877
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 163
- 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); p. 277-279, 281
- Lethaby, William Richard, Leadwork, old and ornamental, and for the most part English [...] with illustrations, London; New York: Macmillan & co., 1893, p. 62
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 24
- Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002, vol. 2: 671
- Zarnecki, George, English Romanesque Lead Sculpture: Lead Fonts of the Twelfth Century, London: A. Tiranti, 1957, p. 10, 32-34 and fig. 28, 30, 33, 36