East Haddon / Eddone / Edone / Hadone

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Results: 13 records

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

design element - motifs - foliage

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 27 July 1998 by BSI

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

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

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the left dragon

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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)

view of basin and cover

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 April 1982 by Tim Marlow

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view of church exterior - south view

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 27 July 1998 by BSI

view of font

view of font

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Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)

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view of font and cover

view of font and cover

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

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view of font and cover in context

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 April 1982 by Tim Marlow

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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

INFORMATION

FontID: 00246HAD
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Main Street, East Haddon & Holdenby, Northamptonshire, NN6 8BU
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the A428, about 15 km NW of Northampton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Nobottle
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, S side, just W of the S door
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tim Marlow for his photographs of this font
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)]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.310594, -1.026
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 18′ 38.14″ N, 1° 1′ 33.6″ W
UTM: 30U 634570 5797419

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; r["References"]
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962
Mee, Arthur, The King's England: Northamptonshire, country of spires and stately homes, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1945
Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928