Lullington nr. Fome / Lolistone
Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
Results: 16 records
B2R01: inscription
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 1 June 1981 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
B2R02: inscription
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 1 June 1981 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
B2R03: inscription
![[cf. Inscription area for details]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1141117071_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Inscription area for details]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 24 October 1988 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
B4R: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches - multiple arches - on double columns with capitals and bases - braided columns
Scene Description: all around the lower register of the basin; the columns are double with torsade pattern in the form of a braid
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 24 October 1988 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
view of font - east side
Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image Source: photograph taken 1 June 1981 by Timothy Marlow
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view of font - southeast side
![[NB: orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1141117075_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image Source: photograph taken 1 June 1981 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
view of font and cover - west side
![[NB: orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1141117068_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image Source: photograph taken 24 October 1988 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: B&W photograph in Bond (1908)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of font
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Image Source: B&W photograph in Tyrrell-Green (1928: fig. 102)
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: in between the human heads
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Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 1 June 1981 by Timothy Marlow
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animal - mammal - lion - head - vegetation stemming from its mouth
Scene Description: several of them
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 1 June 1981 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
human figure - head
Scene Description: several at the upper basin side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 24 October 1988 by Timothy Marlow
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design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: a row of; all almost identical
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 24 October 1988 by Timothy Marlow
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symbol - wheat - ear of wheat or chevron
Scene Description: although some of the patterns on the columns of the arcade resemble ear-of-wheat, they are more likely to represent several types of chevron motif
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 24 October 1988 by Timothy Marlow
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "All Saints Church, Lullington. 12th century parish church. The south aisle was built around 1280, the chancel circa 1340, tower and south porch circa 1450. The church was restored in 1862 by T H Wyatt. It is Grade I listed."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Miss Steel, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 April 2009 by Miss Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1286651] [accessed 17 November 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - north portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Miss Steel, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 April 2009 by Miss Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1286651] [accessed 17 November 2014]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00275LUL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Lullington, Somerset BA11 2PQ
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just N of Frome, about 15 km S of Bath
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Frome [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Lullington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/ST7851/lullington/] [accessed 17 November 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The font here is noted in Paley (1844), in Bloxam (1859) and in the National Gazetteer (1868) as a baptismal font bearing an inscription. Noted by J.L. Petit in volume 5 of the 'Ilam Anastatic Drawing Society' (1864?) [http://www.archive.org/details/ilamanastasicdra05ilamuoft] [accessed 7 July 2009]. Reported in the Handbook for travellers… (1869): "singular tub-shaped Norm[an] font, with an inscription, 'Hoc fontis sacro pereunt delicta lavacro'". Noted in Kelly's Directory of 1883: "Fine old Early Norman font with this inscription encircling it: 'Hoc fontis sacra pereunt delicta lavacro'". Described in Romilly Allen (1888) who mentions two earlier bibliographic sources and gives the text of the inscription on the font [cf. Inscription area below]. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as "a singularly fine specimen of enriched Norman"; they record the text of the inscription [cf. Inscription area] which runs around the upper basin side. In Wade & Wade (1929): "Tub-shaped Norm. font, bearing inscription, Hoc fontis sacro pereunt delicta lavacro, and another legend undecipherable." Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a late Norman baptismal font consisting of a bucket-shaped basin on a short cylindrical base, probably monolithic. Under the rim a band of heads, mostly animals and twisted vegetable motifs; below it, a Latin inscription in large capitals [cf. Inscription area]; farher down, a band of flower heads and, finally, an arcade of intersecting round arches resting on ear-of-wheat [or, more likely, chevron] patterned columns. The base/plinth is plain. Another inscription, on the rim, is almost totally erased and illegible. Described and ilustrated in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a very richly adorned tub-shaped Norman font; he too gives the text the inscription, a slightly different transcription from both Cox & Harvey's and Bond's. Described in Pevsner (1958) as "the most highly decorated Norman font in Somerset"; Pevsner gives the same text of the inscription as Romilly Allen.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Timothy Marlow for his photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 548002 5679623
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.265929, -2.311977
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 15′ 57.34″ N, 2° 18′ 43.12″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: one?
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Location: on a band around the upper part of the bowl
Inscription Text: 1.- "HOC FONTIS SACRO PEREUNT DELICTA LAVERO"
2.- "IN HOC FONTU SACRO PEREUNT DELICTO LAVACRO"
3.- "HOC FONTIS SACRO PEREUNT DELICTA LAVACRO"
Inscription Notes: versions: #1, Bond's (Bond's translation: "Sins perish in this holy font bowl"); #2, Cox;Harvey's; #3, Romilly Allen, The Handbook…, Wade & Wade and Tyrrell-Green's (T-G's translation: "At this sacred laver of the Font offences are done away), and Pevsner (1958) -- Traces of the rim inscription were undecipherable already ca. 1907
Inscription Source: Romilly Allen (1888: 169); Bond (1985 c1908: 113 and ill. on p. 114); Cox (1907: 182); Tyrrell-Green (1928: 158); Wade & Wade [cf. bibliography]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain; metal handle; modern
REFERENCES
- The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868, [www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Lullington/index.html] [accessed 26 March 2008
- Allen, J. Romilly, "On the Antiquity of Fonts in Great Britain", XLIV, Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 1888, pp. 164-173; p. 169
- Bloxam, Matthew Holbeche, The Principles of Gothic ecclesiastical architecture, with an explanation of technical terms […], London: W. Kent, 1859, p. 368
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 113, 181 and ill. on p. 114
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 182, 216, 217
- Gittos, B., "The Lullington font", 5, 4, Chronicle: The Journal of the Archaeological and Local History Society, [1992?]
- Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Somersetshire with the city of Bristol, London: Kelly & Co., 1883, p. 254
- Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire, London: John Murray, 1869, p. 372
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 26
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Somerset and Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 223
- Stocker, D.A., "Fons et origo: The Symbolic Death and Resurrection of English Font Stones", I (1997b), Church Archaeology, 1997, pp. 17-25; p. 18
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 18, 77, 158 and fig. 102
- Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 26 March 2008]