Chaddesley Corbett / Ceadresleage / Cedeslaeh / Cedeslai / Chaddeslegh Corbett / Cheddesleg / Chedeslea / Claydesle

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - 5

Scene Description: At least one of which is a later restoration

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 2000

design element - motifs - braid

Scene Description: all around the upper basin side

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 2000

design element - motifs - braid

Scene Description: thick-moulding shape; all around the centre ring

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 17 March 1985 by Tim Marlow

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

design element - motifs - interlace

Scene Description: all around the lower base

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 17 March 1985 by Tim Marlow

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

view of base

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 17 March 1985 by Tim Marlow

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

view of basin

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 2000

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the old and the new

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 2000

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: note the restoration work

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 2000

view of basin - detail

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 2000

view of basin - detail

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 17 March 1985 by Tim Marlow

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

view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 2000

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 2000

view of font

Image Source: Rickman & Parker (1881)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font

Image Source: photograph taken 17 March 1985 by Tim Marlow

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

view of font

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 2000

view of font

Scene Description: note the restoration on the side of the basin

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 2000

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the font and cover in May 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2009 by R.J. Higginson [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chaddesley_Corbett_03.jpg] [accessed 19 May 2010]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced under the provisions of the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike licence

view of font in context

Image Source: photograph taken 17 March 1985 by Tim Marlow

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

INFORMATION

FontID: 00255CHA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Cassian

Church Patron Saints: St. Cassian [aka Cassyon]

Church Location: Chaddesley Corbett, Worcestershire, DY10 4SD

Country Name: England

Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A448, near Kidderminster

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester

Historical Region: Hundred of Cresslow [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Halfshire

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, W end, N side [may have been moved from a different location within the church)

Date: ca. 1160?

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

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Herefordshire school?

Cognate Fonts: The fonts at Holdgate, Eardisley, Castle Frome and Chaddesley Corbett are related in style

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tim Marlow for his 1985 photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Chaddesley Corbett [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO8973/chaddesley-corbett/] [accessed 11 September 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The font here is noted in Tymms (1834). Moule (1837) notes the font "adorned with rude sculpture, has the appearance of great antiquity". Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 describes this font as "a fine specimen" of the Norman period. It is listed in Romilly Allen (1888) as one of several "bowl-shaped fonts with interlaced work round the stems". Rickman & Parker (1881), with a woodcut by Orlando Jewitt, date it ca. 1140. In mIller (1890) as "Norman, and handsomely carved". Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as the most important early baptismal font of the county, "of early date, [...] carved all over in low relief with interlacing bands and grotesque serpent-like forms". Described and illustrated in Bond (1908). The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "The font is of red sandstone, circular in shape, and a fine piece of 12th-century work. On the rim of the bowl is a double band of interlaced work, and below this five dragons with knotted tails. The stem has a deep band of interlaced work, and the base a double row of 'Stafford knots.'" Roper (1978) dates the font to ca. 1160. The workmanship is very much in the style of the Herefordshire Norman works of Eardisley and Castle Frome but, as Roper (1978) indicates, without the animated scenes present in the other two. The upper part of the basin sides is covered in a broad band of double-strand tape braid interlace; below it are the inter-twined bodies of five dragons, one of which, if not more, a later restoration (Roper mentions the restoration of the church in 1860). The central ring of the base is a thick single-strand tape braid, while the lower base has other interlace motif ornamentation. There are now [2000] two plinths, a square at top and an octagonal underneath, both later works and both with kneeling stones. Zarnecki (1990) studies the pedigree of some of the animals on this font. Brooks & Pevsner (2007) note: "A superb piece, probably c. 1160-70, an outlier of the Herefordshire school (cf. Norman fonts at Eardisley and Castle Frome)".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.360347, -2.161189

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 21′ 37.25″ N, 2° 9′ 40.28″ W

UTM: 30U 557121 5801449

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Number of Pieces: three

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead lined

Rim Thickness: 12-13 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 59-62 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 84-88 cm

Basin Depth: 28 cm

Basin Total Height: 46 cm

Height of Base: 30 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 76 cm

Font Height (with Plinth): 115 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: plygonal and flat, with a small knob finial

REFERENCES

"Les siècles romans en Basse-Normandie", Printemps 1985, 92, Art de Basse-Normandie, 1985

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-05-19 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Allen, J. Romilly, "On the Antiquity of Fonts in Great Britain", XLIV, Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 1888, pp. 164-173; r["References"]

Andrews, Francis Baugh, Memorials of Old Worcestershire, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1912

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

Bowman, Henry, The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Great Britain from the Conquest to the Reformation, London: J.W. Parker, [1846]

Brooks, Alan, Worcestershire, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007

Clapham, Alfred William, English Romanesque Architecture after the Conquest, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934

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

Friar, Stephen, The Sutton Companion to Churches, Thrupp, Stroud (Gloucs.): Sutton Publishing, 2003

Jenkins, Simon, England's Thousand Best Churches, London and New York: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999 [2000 rev. printing]

Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831

Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890

Moule, Thomas, The English counties delineated; or, A topographical description of England [...], London: George Virtue, 1837 [vol. 2]

Rickman, Thomas, An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of Architecture in England, from the Conquest to the Reformation, with a Sketch of the Grecian and Roman Orders, An [7th ed. -- orig. published in 1817], Oxford and London: Parker and Co., 1881

Roper, John S., History of St. Cassian's Church, Chaddesley Corbett, Worcestershire, Chaddesley Corbett: The Friends of St. Cassian's Church, 1978

Tymms, Samuel, Family Topographer, being a compendious account of the antient and present state of the counties of England: vol. IV, Oxford circuit, London: Nichols & Son, 1834

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

Zarnecki, George, "Germanic animal motifs in Romanesque sculpture", 11, 22 (1990), Artibus et Historiae, 1990, pp. 189-203; r["References"]