Southrop / Laca / Lece / Leach / Southdrop / Sutherup

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B01: Old Testament - Story of Moses - Moses on Mount Sinai with the tables of the law (Exodus 24:9-18, 31:18)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

B01: Old Testament - Story of Moses - Moses on Mount Sinai with the tables of the law (Exodus 24:9-18, 31:18)

Scene Description: Source caption: "Southrop, St. Peter's Church: Late Norman font with a figure in each of eight trefoiled arches. Moses".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5442001] [accessed 24 January 2019]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

B02: symbol - 'Ecclesia' and 'Synagoga', Church and Synagogue - Synagoga

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

B03: virtues and vices - Sobriety vs Gluttony

Scene Description: Modestia - Ebrietas

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

B04: virtues and vices - Patience vs Anger

Scene Description: Paciencia - Ira

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

B05: virtues and vices - Largesse - Avarice

Scene Description: Largitas - Avaricia

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

B06: virtues and vices - Temperance vs Lust

Scene Description: Temperancia - Luxuria

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

B07: virtues and vices - Charity vs Envy

Scene Description: Misericordia - Invidia

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

B08: symbol - 'Ecclesia' and 'Synagoga', Church and Synagogue - Ecclesia

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches

Scene Description: each housing a pair of virtue-vice figures

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

design element - architectural - building - church or chapel?

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 31 July 1981 by Timothy Marlow

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

design element - architectural - building - fortress - crenellated

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 31 July 1981 by Timothy Marlow

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

design element - architectural - building - fortress or palace

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 31 July 1981 by Timothy Marlow

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

design element - motifs - buckle

Scene Description: a square one at each crossing of the beaded-tape interlace

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

design element - motifs - interlace - beaded-tape

Scene Description: two strands crossing and leaving gaps where the palmette motifs reside

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

design element - motifs - palmette

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

information

Image Source: scan of info -- source unknown

Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of basin - detail

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

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Moses

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Ecclesia: crowned and holding bannered crozier and chalice

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Synagogia: with the displaced crown and holding the broken banner

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Left to right: Temperance-Lust -- Charity-Envy -- Ecclesia

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

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Scene Description: Left to right: Largesse-Avarice -- Temperance-Lust -- Charity-Envy

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

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Scene Description: the vice EBRIETAS / Gluttony being slain by MODESTIA / Sobriety

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

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Scene Description: the vice LUXURIA / Lust beind slain by TEMPERANCIA / Temperance

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: notice the damage to the upper rim

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: notice the damage around the upper rim

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of church exterior - north side - detail

Scene Description: herringbone pattern on the north wall

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of church exterior - north side - detail

Scene Description: herringbone pattern on the north walL

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Southrop, St. Peter's Church: Herringbone masonry in the nave, the oldest part of the church".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5442021] [accessed 24 January 2019]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an Illustration in Daubeny (1921)

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view of font

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

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, June 2007 [www.allthecotswolds.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of font - east side

Scene Description: showing (L->R): Moses(?)-Ecclesia

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 1998 by BSI

view of font - north side

Scene Description: showing (L->R): Synagogia-Modestia

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 1998 by BSI

view of font - northwest side

Scene Description: showing (L->R): Modestia-Patientia-Largitia

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 1998 by BSI

view of font - south side

Scene Description: showing (L->R): Luxuria-Misericordia

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 1998 by BSI

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 31 July 1981 by Timothy Marlow

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

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 00238SOU

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Southrop, Gloucestershire, GL7 3NX, England

Country Name: England

Location: Gloucestershire, South West

Directions to Site: Located 20-25 km N of Swindon

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester

Historical Region: Hundred of Brightwells Barrow

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of the nave, opposite the S door

Date: ca. 1180?

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

Cognate Fonts: Similar, though not identical, to the font at Stanton Fitzwarren, in Wiltshire

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds, for the help in the documenting this font; we are also grateful to Timothy Marlow for his photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is no entry for Southrop in the Domesday survey, but Moor (1867) writes: "the parish of Southrop, (usually pronounced Sutherup), another little village near Fairford, supposed by some to be the Laca of 'Domesday Book'." [LECE, folio 168v]. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period [NB: C&H spell it "Southdrop"]. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a Norman baptismal font, a variant of the one at Stanton Fitzwarren. The Southrop font has only eight pairs [Humilitas over Superbia appear on the Stanton-F... font but not on this one]; each virtue is "represented as an armed knight trampling on a vice" (ibid.), with its name above it, while the names of the vices are written backwards and vertically. Buck (1951) looks into the sources of the iconographic programme on this and the Stanton Fitzwarren font. Stone (1955) notes that the allegorical cycle "of the battle of Virtues and Vices, popularised in a manuscript well known to the Anglo-Saxons, the 'Psychomachia' of Prudentius", was probably the inspirational source for the iconography in the fonts at Stanton Fitzwarren and Southrop. Anderson (1955) points out the artist's error in depicting Patientia chastising Ira with a whip, "having taken over the instrument with which Pudictia should scourge Libido", and remarks that "the carvers imperfectly understood their theme". Noted and illustrated in Kaske (1968). The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 7, 1981) notes: "The small rural parish of Southrop [...] was known as Leach after the river in 1086, [...] but from at least 1211 the name Southrop, [...] associating it with the local group of names that includes Hatherop, Botherop (Eastleach Martin), and Williamstrip, was used. [...] In 1086 35 inhabitants of Southrop were recorded. [...] There was a priest at Southrop, and therefore presumably a church, in 1086 [...] The church of ST. PETER [...] The nave is of the 12th century and most of the original walling, with the stones laid herringbone fashion, [...] survives together with two windows and the north doorway, which is of two orders with a lattice-decorated tympanum. The 12th-century chancel arch also survives, but the chancel was rebuilt in the 13th century [...] The richly decorated font dates from the 12th century; the bowl is carved with an arcade filled with figure sculpture showing the Virtues overcoming the Vices." The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: SP2021503418] notes: "Parish church. Early C12, C13 chancel and early C14 transept. Restored in 1852; again in 1895. [...] This church is important for the extent of surviving Norman work, the font, and its link with John Keble, one of the instigators of the Oxford Movement. [...] C12 circular font is very important with well-preserved arcading and figures in relief. Dating from c1180 it was discovered by John Keble during his period as curate here in 1823-5." [cf. infra] Noted and illustrated in the CRSBI (2019) with date to mid- to late-12th century. [...] A small portion of the stone of the font is beginning to flake. It is located in the beaded band above Ecclesia, and probably should receive early attention. Stone reports the drapery of the figures as "naturalistically conceived, and awakening the interest in realism is shown by the gesture of Ira (Anger) to protect her body from the whip. [...] Pevsner, Zarnecki and Verey suggest c.1180 for the font and Lawrence Stone suggests c.1170." On-site notes: there are eight trefoil arches around the arcade encircling the bowl: on the eastern side stands Moses with his tablets of the Old Law and on his right is Ecclesia and on his left is Synagogia; moving from left to right, after Synagogia, Modestia stands over Ebrietas (Excess), followed by: Paciencia over Ira, Largitas (Generosity), over Avaricia; Temperancia (Temperance) over Luxuria; Misericordia (Pity) over Invidia (Envy). The names of the vices incised on the side of the corresponding figures and, as Bond (Ibid.) indicates [cf. above] are spelled backwards; the names of the virtues are inscribed correctly on the arches above them. The upper 1/3 of the basin side is ornamented with a beautiful interlace of beaded-tape; the two strands open up at regular intervals leaving wide spaces in which a palmette motif resides; where the strands cross, a lovely square bucle frames the junction; each spandrel of the arcade has a small building, chiefly towers filling the space. The basin is almost cylindrical -slightly wider at the top- unmounted and lined with lead; central drainage hole. [NB: notes available in the vicarage date this baptismal font to ca. 1180 -- same notes inform that the font was discovered built into the south doorway by John Keble at the time he was curate here, 1823-1825; the font was extricated and re-installed in the church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.728959, -1.710376

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 43′ 44.25″ N, 1° 42′ 37.36″ W

UTM: 30U 589065 5731680

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: cylindrical (umounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead lining

Rim Thickness: 11 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 51 - 52 cm* / 52 cm**

Diameter (includes rim): 74 cm* / 74 cm**

Basin Depth: 35 cm+

Height of Basin Side: 73 - 74 cm* / 72.2 cm**

Basin Total Height: 73- 74 cm* / 72.2 cm**

Font Height (less Plinth): 73 - 74 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 111 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** CRSBI (2019)

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Notes: NB:some of the names of the virtues now undiscernible -- the names of the vices are spelled backwards

Inscription Location: on the basin sides

Inscription Text: 1.- "PACIENCIA - LARGITAS - TEMPERANCIA - MISERICORDIA - MODESTIA" 2.- "ARI - AICIRAVA - AIRUXUL - AIDIVNI - SATEIRBE" [Ii.e., IRA - AVARICIA - LUXURIA - INVIDIA - EBRIETAS"

Inscription Source: Bond (1985 c1908: 181); confirmed on site

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration and cross finial/handle

REFERENCES

Anderson, M.D., The Imagery of British churches, London: John Murray, 1955

Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958

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

Buck, A.G. Randle, "Some Wiltshire fonts. Part II", LIV, CXCIV (June 1951), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1951, pp. 19-35; r["References"]

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: 2019-01-24 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

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

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

Daubeny, Ulric, Ancient Cotswold Churches, Cheltenham: J. Burrow, 1921

Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962

Kaske, R. E., "Piers Plowman and local iconography", XXXI, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 1968, pp. 159-169; pls. 59-61; r["References"]

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.; r["References"]

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

Stone, Lawrence, Sculpture in Britain: the Middle Ages, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1955

Tasker, Edward G., Encyclopedia of Medieval Church Art, London: B.T. Batsford, 1993

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