Eardisley No. 1 / Erdesley / Herdeslege
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Halling, 2012
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image Source: photograph taken 27 July 1982 by Tim Marlow
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image Source: photograph taken 27 July 1982 by Tim Marlow
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image Source: photograph taken 27 July 1982 by Tim Marlow
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image Source: photograph taken 27 July 1982 by Tim Marlow
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Harding, 2004
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Image Source: Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. III: p. 105)
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animal - mammal - lion - passant-gardant
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human figure - warrior - 2 - fighting
![Baskerville and Lord Drogo? [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/EAR9801238_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Baskerville and Lord Drogo? [cf. FontNotes]
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New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Harrowing of Hell
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New Testament - Passion and Public life of Christ - conflated scene - baptism - Harrowing of Hell
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Scene Description: related to the lion fonts in Jutland?
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4639033] [accessed 1 October 2016]
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Scene Description: Christ
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Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 27 July 1982 by Tim Marlow
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Scene Description: John the Baptist?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 27 July 1982 by Tim Marlow
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 27 July 1982 by Tim Marlow
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tim Marlow, 2014
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 27 July 1982 by Tim Marlow
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view of basin - detail
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design element - motifs - interlace - 2-strand - braided
design element - motifs - interlace
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Harding, 2004
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view of basin - detail
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Image Source: Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. III: p. 105)
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view of basin - detail
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view of church exterior - south porch
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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design element - motifs - interlace - 2-strand - knot - linked knots
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
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view of basin - detail
![Baskerville and Lord Drogo (?) [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1070211011_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Baskerville and Lord Drogo (?) [cf. FontNotes]
INFORMATION
Font ID: 00203EAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 1998-07-19
Font Date: ca. 1140-1145?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid?), Late Norman
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Herefordshire school
Cognate Fonts: The font at Castle Frome may be by the same carver (?); Chaddesley Corbett from the same 'school'. The fonts at Chickerell, Eardisley, Morwenstow, South Milton and Bishop's Teignton, all have a cable moulding that appears to contract the shape of the vessel into a cup-shape. The fonts at Holdgate, Eardisley, Castle Frome and Chaddesley Corbett are related in style
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, to the left of S door
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary Magdalene
Church Address: Park Road, Eardisley, Herefordshire HR3 6NW
Site Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located WSW of Leominster down the A4112, in a corner of the Welsh Marches
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Historical Region: Hundred of Elsdon
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for Eardisley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO3149/eardisley/] [accessed 2 November 2014], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The font here is listed in Romilly Allen (1888) as one of several "bowl-shaped fonts with interlaced work round the stems". Described and illustrated in Bond (1908). Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a font decorated with a rope moulding among other motifs. Stone (1955) dates it ca. 1150-1155. In Hutton (1976). Described and illustrated in the inventory of Herefordshire (1931-1934), in which it is dated to the mid 12th century and stated that "the work is by the same carver as Castle Frome font". Künstler (1973) points out to similarities with Kilpeck [S door portal] and suggests a dating ca. 1145. Jenkins (1999) suggests the carver is the same hand who did the doorway at Kilpeck, and refers also to the fight between Baskerville and Lord Drogo, to the outcome of which this font may owe its existence. Noted and illustrated in Bestiaire roman. The iconography of this font has been studied by Kaske (1998). Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2016), with suggested date ca. 1140. On-site notes: the monolithic font is lined with lead and was newly restored by the British Museum in 1998, according to local sources. There are three scenes on this font: first, the conflated scene of the Harrowing of Hell and the Baptism of Christ; to the right of this scene is a large lion around the bowl; to the right of the lion, is the battle scene between two figures; the figure on the right is piercing the leg of the second figure with a large spear. According to some locals the battle scene represents the dispute between the Baskerville family, specifically, Ralph the first, and his new father-in-law, Lord Drogo of Clifford. The wooden cover was carved recently by the local doctor, according to the churchwarden. [cf. Index entry for Eardisley No. 2 for a holy-water stoup listed for this church]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Harding, of www.sheelanagig.org, and to Tim Marlow for the additional photographs of this font]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 499596 5776194
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.136263, -3.0059
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 8′ 10.55″ N, 3° 0′ 21.24″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: chalice-shaped, hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin & base
Rim Thickness: 7-9 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 58-60 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 74-75 cm*
Basin Depth: 32 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 55 cm*
Basin Total Height: 55 cm*
Height of Base: 25 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 80 cm* / 75 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** CRSBI (2016)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- "Les siècles romans en Basse-Normandie", Printemps 1985, 92, Art de Basse-Normandie, 1985
- The Visual Culture of Wales = Diwylliant gweledol Cymru, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998-2003, vol. 3: p. 69 and fig. 84
- Allen, J. Romilly, "On the Antiquity of Fonts in Great Britain", XLIV, Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 1888, pp. 164-173; p. 171
- Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958, p. 190
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 50, 153, 165, 181, 183 and ill. on p. 53
- 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. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 201
- Crossley, Frederick Herbert, English Church Craftsmanship: an Introduction to the Work of the Mediaval Period and Some Account of Later Developments, London: B.T. Batsford, 1941, p. 16
- Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962, p. ix, 66, 82 and pl. 18
- De Solms, Elisabeth, Bestiare roman, La Pierre-qui-Vire (Yonne): Zodiaque, 1977, plate
- Fawcett, Joshua, Churches of Yorkshire, Leeds: T.W. Green, 1844, p. 264-265 and pl. 226
- Friar, Stephen, The Sutton Companion to Churches, Thrupp, Stroud (Gloucs.): Sutton Publishing, 2003, p. 202
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1931-1934, vol. III: p. xxxii, xxxvi, lxiv, 52 and pl. 105
- Hutton, Graham, English Parish Churches, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976, p. 46, 47 and ill. nos. 39, 40
- Jenkins, Simon, England's Thousand Best Churches, London and New York: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999 [2000 rev. printing], p. 267-268
- Kaske, R. E., "Piers Plowman and local iconography", XXXI, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 1968, pp. 159-169; pls. 59-61; p. 159-169; pls. 59-61
- Kaske, R.E., "Piers Plowman and local iconography: the Font at Eardisley, Herefordshire", LI, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 1988, pp. 184-186, 3 ill.; p. 184-186; pl. 20(abc)
- Nordström, Folke, Mediaeval Baptismal Fonts: An Iconographical Study, Stockholm: Universitetet i Umeå, 1984, p. 50
- Stone, Lawrence, Sculpture in Britain: the Middle Ages, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1955, pl. 48B
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 26, 53, 57, 62, 79 and fig. 22