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Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Andrew

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 July 1998 by BSI

Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. James the Great

Scene Description: to the right of John; identified by the inscription on the arch-head above

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 2 May 1983 by Timothy Marlow

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Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Matthew

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 July 1998 by BSI

Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Paul

Scene Description: to the right of St. Peter; identified by the inscription in the arch-head above -- on the south side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 2 May 1983 by Timothy Marlow

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Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter - holding 1 key and book

Scene Description: identified by the inscription in the arch-head above -- on the south side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 2 May 1983 by Timothy Marlow

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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John

Scene Description: seen here in the left arch, his name IOHAN carved on the arch-head above: he holds his hands up to his chest with an unrolled scroll hanging down his front.

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 2 May 1983 by Timothy Marlow

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Apostle or saint - unidentified

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 July 1998 by BSI

Apostle or saint - unidentified

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 July 1998 by BSI

Apostle or saint - unidentified

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 July 1998 by BSI

Apostle or saint - unidentified

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 July 1998 by BSI

Apostle or saint - unidentified

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 July 1998 by BSI

Apostle or saint - unidentified

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 July 1998 by BSI

animal - head

Scene Description: some grotesque

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 2 May 1983 by Timothy Marlow

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns with capitals and bases - torsade columns - beaded-tape - 12

Scene Description: the columns have a spiral band of beaded-tape ornamentation

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 July 1998 by BSI

design element - architectural - arch-head - round - 12

Scene Description: round arch-heads mounted on the spandrels of the main arcade; each contains a human or animal head

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 2 May 1983 by Timothy Marlow

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design element - motifs - floral and foliage

Scene Description: inside a wide zig-zag pattern; includes some palmettes -- much damaged in several areas

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 2 May 1983 by Timothy Marlow

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human figure - head

Scene Description: some grotesque

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 2 May 1983 by Timothy Marlow

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inscription

Scene Description: on the arch-heads of the arcade; though much eroded, some names of the Apostles can still be discerned, like the one in the centre arch here: IACOB

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 2 May 1983 by Timothy Marlow

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view of basin

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Bond (1908)

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view of basin - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 February 2009 by Amanda Slater [www.flickr.com/photos/pikerslanefarm/3260169061/in/set-72157613474770986] [accessed 10 February 2015]

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view of church exterior - north portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 February 2009 by Amanda Slater [www.flickr.com/photos/pikerslanefarm/3260144063/in/set-72157613474770986] [accessed 10 February 2015]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 February 2009 by Amanda Slater [www.flickr.com/photos/pikerslanefarm/3261007332/in/set-72157613474770986] [accessed 10 February 2015]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 February 2009 by Amanda Slater [www.flickr.com/photos/pikerslanefarm/3260155401/in/set-72157613474770986] [accessed 10 February 2015]

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view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 February 2009 by Amanda Slater [www.flickr.com/photos/pikerslanefarm/3260176789/in/set-72157613474770986] [accessed 10 February 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east - chancel arch

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 February 2009 by Amanda Slater [www.flickr.com/photos/pikerslanefarm/3261002694/in/set-72157613474770986] [accessed 10 February 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east - chancel arch - detail

Scene Description: showing the complex decoration of the chancel arch

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 February 2009 by Amanda Slater [www.flickr.com/photos/pikerslanefarm/3260165987/in/set-72157613474770986] [accessed 10 February 2015]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 February 2009 by Amanda Slater [www.flickr.com/photos/pikerslanefarm/3260998752/in/set-72157613474770986] [accessed 10 February 2015]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: photograph taken 2 May 1983 by Timothy Marlow

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view of font cover

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 2 May 1983 by Timothy Marlow

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00280STO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of Saint Mary the Virgin [orig. from Maxtoke priory church?]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Church Lane, Stoneleigh, Warwickshire CV8 3DN, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off the A444, 8 km S of Coventry, 8 km N of Leamington Spa, 10 km NE of Warwick

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry

Historical Region: Hundred of Stoneleigh [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Kninghtlow

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the E end of the S aisle

Century and Period: 12th century (late?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

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

Church Notes: Red sandstone Norman church with fine chancel arch and font; box pews.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Stoneleigh [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP3372/stoneleigh/] [accessed 10 February 2015]; the part in King William's lordship mentions two priests, but not a church, though there probably was one there. A font in this church is illustrated in a 30 July 1841 drawing by Henry E.L. Dryden, in the Sir Henry Dryden Collection, Northamptonshire. Described in Romilly Allen (1888) as a baptismal font "with the names of the Twelve Apostles inscribed." [NB: R.-A. spells the name of the place "Stonleigh". Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a bucket-shaped baptismal font of the Norman period/style mounted on a short round pedestal base; the sides of the upper basin have masks or heads; the rest of the basin is ornamented with an arcade in which the Apostels stand, their names inscribed on the corresponding arches. Bond (ibid.) identifies the two in the front as Matthew and Andrew. In arguing against a pre-Conquest date for this font, Bond (ibid.) refers to the piers in the fonts at Ilam and Stoneleigh as "fluted just after the fashion of those of Durham Cathedral, which was no commenced till 1093." The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 6, 1951) notes: "The Domesday Survey of 1086 mentions two priests at Stoneleigh, [...] and when Kenilworth Priory was founded, in 1122, Henry I gave 'the church of Stoneleigh of my demesne with the lands, tithes, and churchscots (cherchez) and all things pertaining to it' to the priory, his gift being afterwards confirmed by Henry II. [...] The grant was made at the request of Thurstan, Archbishop of York, who then held the church and himself executed a charter giving it to the priory [NB: Thurstan died in 1140] [...] The parish church [...] dates from the latter part of the 12th century [...] It was drastically rebuilt and the south aisle added about the middle of the 14th century. [...] The font, placed on the south side of the door at the west end, is of the 12th century and is said to have been brought from Maxstoke Abbey. It is circular, with twelve arcaded niches containing figures of the Apostles, and stands on a modern circular base of two steps. It has a deep lead-lined basin." Described in Davidson (1985) who dates it to the 12th century and identifies the figures as the twelve apostles. On-site notes: lead-lined basin well; central drainage; the twelve figures stand in a round-arch arcade with various accessories, their names inscribed around each arch; the figure of John is of particular interest: he holds his hands up, palms holding an unrolled scroll; other Apostles are easily identified by their symbol, in the case of Peter holding a large key and a book, or, when the symbol is not so readily discernible, by the inscription in the arch-head above, as with Paul, to the right of Peter, James, etc.; in the spandrels between each niche are carved heads and beasts - some are grotesque, some wear crowns - an odd assortment; the base is modern. There is evidence of an earlier lid on the upper rim of the basin. [NB: local info: the font is said to have come from Maxstoke Priory where it lay amid the ruins for more than 250 years; it replaced another Norman font which is said to have been in the church as late as 1803, but was probably removed during the 1811-1825 renovations, and there is no available information on it at present].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.350298, -1.51607

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 21′ 1.07″ N, 1° 30′ 57.85″ W

UTM: 30U 601073 5801037

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: three?

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

Rim Thickness: 7.5 - 10 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 50 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 66-68 cm*

Basin Depth: 30 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 55 m*

Basin Total Height: 55 cm*

Height of Base: 33 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 88 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 104 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Location: basin side, on the arches

Inscription Text: [The names of the 12 Apostles]

Inscription Source: Romilly Allen (1888: 169); Cox (1907: 177)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: round, low-conical shape, with ball and moulding finial/handle; modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-02-10 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"]

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

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

Davidson, Clifford, The Early Art of Coventry, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick and Lesser Sites in Warwickshire: a Subject list of Extand and LOst Art Including Items Relevant to Early Drama, Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1985

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979