Burghill / Burgelle / Bvrgelle
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image of a 19 July 1998 photograph by BSI
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image of a 19 July 1998 photograph by BSI
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Norman font, St Mary's The stone stem is carved with thirteen arcades which contain images of the twelve apostles and Jesus Christ. When the tower fell in 1810, it crushed the lead baptism bowl, and one made of sandstone was used until the lead one was restored. The wooden lid was carved in 1905."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pauline Eccles, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 23 January 2009 by Pauline Eccles [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Norman_font,_St_Mary's_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1131365.jpg] [accessed 12 January 2023]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary, Burghill: historic site, village, religious site, funerary structure"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 29 December 2013 by Philip Pankhurst [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary,_Burghill_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3795363.jpg] [accessed 12 January 2023]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. II: pl. 53)
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design element - motifs - vine
Scene Description: all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a 19 July 1998 photograph by BSI
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design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 2
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Image Source: digital image of a 19 July 1998 photograph by BSI
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design element - architectural - arch-head - round
Scene Description: all around
view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary, Burghill: historic site, village, religious site, funerary structure"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 29 December 2013 by Philip Pankhurst [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary,_Burghill_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3793395.jpg] [accessed 12 January 2023]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Herefordshire, BURGHILL, St Mary the Virgin"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The National Churches Trust, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph 22 June 2018 by the The National Churches Trust [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herefordshire,_BURGHILL,_St_Mary_the_Virgin_(48496115837).jpg] [accessed 12 January 2023]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary, Burghill: historic site, village, religious site, funerary structure"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 29 December 2013 by Philip Pankhurst [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary,_Burghill_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3795323.jpg] [accessed 12 January 2023]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary, Burghill: historic site, village, religious site, funerary structure"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Pankhurst, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 29 December 2013 by Philip Pankhurst [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary,_Burghill_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3794460.jpg] [accessed 12 January 2023]
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Apostle or saint - Apostles - unidenitfied - 12 - 1 per niche
Scene Description: believed to be the Apostles in the arcade of the base
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Image Source: digital image of a 19 July 1998 photograph by BSI
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Christ
Scene Description: In one of the niches of the arcade
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: two bands: above and below the arcade
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Image Source: digital image of a 19 July 1998 photograph by BSI
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design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 2
Scene Description: above and below the arcade
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Image Source: digital image of a 19 July 1998 photograph by BSI
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00265BUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 1998-07-19
Font Date: ca. 1150-1175?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [base only] -- 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: lead font
Cognate Fonts: Aston Ingham?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: 2 Church Cottages, Burghill, Hereford HR4 7SF, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1432 761821
Site Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A4110, 1-2 km SE of Tillington, 4-5 km NNW of Hereford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Historical Region: Hundred of Cutestornes [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: damaged and restored lead font [cf. ImagesArea]
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Burghill [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SO4744/burghill/] [accessed 11 January 2023]; it mentions a priest but not a church in it. A font is noted in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 simply as "a curious font of metal". Described in Cox (1907): "At Burghill, Herefords., the well-moulded rim of a Norman leaded font has been welded to a new bowl." Described and illustrated in the Herefordshire inventory (1931-1934): "Font: lead bowl, modern, but with applied lead ornament consisting of a foliage scroll above a series of shallow arches, c. 1200; cylindrical stem of stone with arcade of thirteen bays with round arches and shafts, each bay with a figure of a man, probably Christ and the twelve apostles, but much defaced; defaced band above and running foliage below, late 12th-century." An ilustration in Clayton (1929) shows a cover with six ribs forming a dome with a Maltese cross finial. Described and illustrated in Zarnecki (1957), who dates it to the third quarter of the 12th century. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SO4793444501] notes: "Parish church. C12 core, altered and enlarged during late C12 or early C13 and C14, south porch added late in C15 or early C16, the west tower was rebuilt in 1812 and further restoration and additions in 1824, 1854, 1862, 1879 - 80 and 1894 […] C12 font has unusual base with figures in niches, lead bowl with vine ornament." On-site notes: there is another lead font at Aston Ingham - only two in this diocese.
There is an entry for Burghill [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SO4744/burghill/] [accessed 11 January 2023]; it mentions a priest but not a church in it. A font is noted in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 simply as "a curious font of metal". Described in Cox (1907): "At Burghill, Herefords., the well-moulded rim of a Norman leaded font has been welded to a new bowl." Described and illustrated in the Herefordshire inventory (1931-1934): "Font: lead bowl, modern, but with applied lead ornament consisting of a foliage scroll above a series of shallow arches, c. 1200; cylindrical stem of stone with arcade of thirteen bays with round arches and shafts, each bay with a figure of a man, probably Christ and the twelve apostles, but much defaced; defaced band above and running foliage below, late 12th-century." An ilustration in Clayton (1929) shows a cover with six ribs forming a dome with a Maltese cross finial. Described and illustrated in Zarnecki (1957), who dates it to the third quarter of the 12th century. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SO4793444501] notes: "Parish church. C12 core, altered and enlarged during late C12 or early C13 and C14, south porch added late in C15 or early C16, the west tower was rebuilt in 1812 and further restoration and additions in 1824, 1854, 1862, 1879 - 80 and 1894 […] C12 font has unusual base with figures in niches, lead bowl with vine ornament." On-site notes: there is another lead font at Aston Ingham - only two in this diocese.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 516341 5771787
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.0964, -2.76145
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 5′ 47.04″ N, 2° 45′ 41.22″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: Metal and stone, lead (basin) and unknown type of stone (base)
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin & base
Rim Thickness: 1.5-2 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 51 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 55 cm*
Basin Depth: 22 cm*
Basin Total Height: 33 cm*
Height of Base: 39 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 72 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): (plinth 16 cm*) 89 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on site
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1905
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 79, 87 and ill. on p. 84
- Clayton, Brian C., "English Church Fonts of Ornamental Lead Work", X, no. 57, Apollo: a Journal of the Arts, 1929, pp. 133-138; p. 133-138
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 164
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1931-1934, vol. II: p. xxx-xxxi, 43 and pl. 52
- 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, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=50844] [accessed 22 January 2007]
- Zarnecki, George, English Romanesque Lead Sculpture: Lead Fonts of the Twelfth Century, London: A. Tiranti, 1957, p. 17, 41 and fig. 74