Burghill / Burgelle / Bvrgelle

Results: 16 records

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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

Image Source: digital image of a 19 July 1998 photograph by BSI

Christ

Scene Description: In one of the niches of the arcade

Image Source: digital image of a 19 July 1998 photograph by BSI

design element - architectural - arch-head - round

Scene Description: all around

design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: two bands: above and below the arcade

Image Source: digital image of a 19 July 1998 photograph by BSI

design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 2

Image Source: digital image of a 19 July 1998 photograph by BSI

design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 2

Scene Description: above and below the arcade

Image Source: digital image of a 19 July 1998 photograph by BSI

design element - motifs - vine

Scene Description: all around

Image Source: digital image of a 19 July 1998 photograph by BSI

view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary, Burghill: historic site, village, religious site, funerary structure"

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]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Herefordshire, BURGHILL, St Mary the Virgin"

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]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary, Burghill: historic site, village, religious site, funerary structure"

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]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary, Burghill: historic site, village, religious site, funerary structure"

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]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. II: pl. 53)

Copyright Instructions: Assumed PD

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a 19 July 1998 photograph by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a 19 July 1998 photograph by BSI

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary, Burghill: historic site, village, religious site, funerary structure"

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 and cover in context

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."

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."

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]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 00265BUR

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: 2 Church Cottages, Burghill, Hereford HR4 7SF, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1432 761821

Country Name: England

Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands

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]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: ca. 1150-1175?

Century and Period: 12th century [base only] -- 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: lead font

Cognate Fonts: Aston Ingham?

Font Notes: Click to view

GET MORE FONT + EXT + INT PICS https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:St_Mary_the_Virgin,_Burghill 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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.0964, -2.76145

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 5′ 47.04″ N, 2° 45′ 41.22″ W

UTM: 30U 516341 5771787

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

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

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

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1931-1934

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

Zarnecki, George, English Romanesque Lead Sculpture: Lead Fonts of the Twelfth Century, London: A. Tiranti, 1957