East Haddon / Eddone / Edone / Hadone
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Bond (1908)
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Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)
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virtues and vices - cardinal sins - Lust (Luxuria, Libido)
Scene Description: There is only one scene on this font: on the north side is a depiction of Luxuria; a figure in a long gown holds the heads of two serpents to her breast. The local literature states that this is Christ crushing the heads of two serpents. Even though there are no visible breasts (they may have been sanded down) the figure is not crushing the heads, but supporting them from underneath.
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 27 July 1998 by BSI
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Scene Description: the left dragon
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tim Marlow, 2014
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 April 1982 by Tim Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arch heads - intersecting arches
Scene Description: around the lower part of the basin side
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 27 July 1998 by BSI
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: one of the two beasts: to the right of the figure
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 27 July 1998 by BSI
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: the human figure holding the heads of the two beasts: Luxuria?
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 27 July 1998 by BSI
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design element - motifs - foliage
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 27 July 1998 by BSI
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 27 July 1998 by BSI
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 April 1982 by Tim Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 April 1982 by Tim Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 00246HAD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 1998-07-27
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, S side, just W of the S door
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Main Street, East Haddon & Holdenby, Northamptonshire, NN6 8BU
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A428, about 15 km NW of Northampton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Nobottle
Additional Comments: damaged font: the upper rim is much damaged
Font Notes:
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There are three enties for [East] Haddon [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP6668/east-haddon/] [accessed 2 November 2014], one of which reports a priest in it, but no church is mentioned, though there probably was one there. Quaintly carved Norman font: the program is supposed to represent the conquest of Baptism over the powers of evil according to Cox & Harvey (1907) and Paley (1844). Romilly Allen (1883-1884) writes: "On the Norman font at East Haddon [...] a man appears holding two swans or long-necked dragons, with their heads under his arms" Tyrrell-Green (1928) sees "the figure of a knight with a cross upon his shield slaying a dragon". Mee (1945) writes: "The font is of remarkable interest, boldly and richly carved by a Norman craftsman with a strange conception of symbolising the triumph of the human spirit over the powers of darkness--a man carrying the heads of two winged serpents under his arms." In Nee (1945). In Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Circular, C13. With a frieze of intersected arches and one of foliage trails with a man holding two affonted dragons (cf. Brackley)." On-site notes: there is only one scene on this font: on the north side is probably a depiction of Luxuria: a figure in a long gown holds the heads of two serpents to her breast. The local literature states that this is Christ crushing the heads of two serpents. Even though there are no visible breasts [they may have been sanded down] the figure is not crushing the heads but supporting them from underneath. The lower part of the basin side has a blind arcade of intersecting arches. The pedestal base is a plain cylindrical column, not the original one but a modern replacement. There is considerable damage to the upper basin rim and sides. If Paley's drawing of ca. 1844 is accurate, the base at that time was different from the one in place in 1998. The SCRAN databse [www.scran.ac.uk] lists a painting of this font [w/ ref. to the Northamptonshire Libraries and Information Service (4XL RAPID)]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tim Marlow for his photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 634570 5797419
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.310594, -1.026
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 18′ 38.14″ N, 1° 1′ 33.6″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Rim Thickness: 8-9 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 51-52 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 69-70
Basin Depth: 25 cm
Height of Basin Side: 43 cm
Basin Total Height: 43 cm
Height of Base: 50 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 93 cm
Font Height (with Plinth): 110 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Notes: octagonal-pyramid shape; carved bottom and side panels; fleuron finial
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. 437
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 37, 139, 149, 157, 183, 206 and ill. on p. 187
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 211
- Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962, p. 81
- Mee, Arthur, The King's England: Northamptonshire, country of spires and stately homes, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1945, [http://northamptoncastle.homeip.net/northampton/books/Arthur%20Mee.htm] [accessed 15 October 2006]
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 21 et al.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 198
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 58, 62