Cottesmore / Codesmore / Cotesmore / Godesmore / Katemore

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New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion

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Scene Description: one of the eight sides of the basin; now facing west [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2014 by R. O'Connor [https://sacredsfservice.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/sany0020.jpg] [accessed 16 July 2015]

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cleric - bishop? - with staff

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Image Source: digital photograph by C. Myers, St, Nicholas Center [www.stnicholascenter.org/galleries/gazetteer/1089/4/] [accessed 16 July 2015]

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design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches

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Image Source: digital photograph by C. Myers, St, Nicholas Center [www.stnicholascenter.org/galleries/gazetteer/1089/4/] [accessed 16 July 2015]

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design element - architectural - arch-head - trefoiled - 4

Scene Description: on the sides of the base

Image Source: digital photograph by C. Myers, St, Nicholas Center [www.stnicholascenter.org/galleries/gazetteer/1089/4/] [accessed 16 July 2015]

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette

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human figure - head - 4

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view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: the portal is not in its original location

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 May 2015 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4475931] [accessed 16 July 2015]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00273COT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: Main Street, Cottesmore, Rutland, LE15 7DJ

Country Name: England

Location: Rutland, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located NE of Oakham, 35 kms WNW of Peterborough

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough

Historical Region: Hundred of Alstoe

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, just W of the S doorway

Century and Period: 13th century [base only] [14th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

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There is an entry for Cottesmore [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK9013/cottesmore/] [accessed 16 July 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font here is noted in Romilly Allen (1884), Bond (1985 c.1908) and Cox & Harvey (1907): baptismal font of the Norman period decorated with a Crucifixion scene. The Victoria County History (Rutland, vol. 2, 1935) notes: "The architectural history of the church is not very clear, but the pilaster buttress north of the tower, which seems originally to have been a clasping buttress, probably marked the north-west angle of the 12thcentury nave, originally aiseless, but to which a north aisle of three bays may have been added before the close of the century. [...] The earliest part of the building is the south doorway, which is of 12th-century date [...] The doorway is not in its original position, but belonged to an earlier structure from which the present building has developed. [...] The font has a late 14th-century octagonal panelled [...] bowl mounted on a base apparently of early 13thcentury date, which is said to have been long used as a mounting block at Cottesmore Hall before its restoration to the church. It is a heavy square block, with the upper part of each angle chamfered and carved with a human head, and on the sides rudely executed carvings within trefoil-arched panels; a bishop or abbot in the act of benediction on the north, a crucifixion on the east, and on the south and west a double rose, or eight-leaved flower with four-lobed centre." Pevsner (1984) notes: "A strange piece. Square, probably of c. 1200. Under depressed trefoiled arches reliefs of Christ crucified and a saintly bishop. Also two re-cut rosettes. On this a C14 or C15 octagonal bowl with panels with blank two-light tracery. One face only blank, no doubt originally placed against a pier."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.712761, -0.665067

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 42′ 45.94″ N, 0° 39′ 54.24″ W

UTM: 30U 657725 5842876

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-07-16 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984