Belton / Belton nr. Grantham / Beltone
Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2013
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Results: 19 records
B01: cleric - bishop - orant pose
Scene Description: appears to the right of the hooded man, to the left of the caped crowned (?) figure
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 July 1998 by BSI
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B02: human figure - male - crowned - wearing cape
Scene Description: between the bishop and the rampant lion
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 July 1998 by BSI
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B03: animal - mammal - lion - rampant
Scene Description: facing the caped figure on the left; on the right is the armed warrior
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 July 1998 by BSI
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B04: human figure - warrior - with sword in the right hand - killing unarmed man with roped neck
Scene Description: the rope tied around the neck of the victim (?) appears to be tied to the capital of the right column and, from there, to be hed by the bird and the man in the next arch
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B05: representations ~ gods, demi-gods, heroes etc. (Germanic and Scandinavian religions) - Odin - Odin with falcon
Scene Description: human figure facing left with a large bird (falcon?) on his head; they both appear to be holding the rope that connects to the neck of the man in the arch on the left
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B06: cleric - monk - ringing bells
Scene Description: puling on two ringing ropes, one in each hand
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 July 1998 by BSI
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B07: human figure - male - wearing hood - monk?
Scene Description: open book floating in the upper right-hand corner; breasts have been carved in the front of the figure
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 July 1998 by BSI
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B08: design element - motifs - tracery?
Scene Description: or a symbol: Tree of Life? -- on the south side, against the wall
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Image Source: digital image of a drawing by F. Simpson Jr., engraved by Robert Roberts; in Simpson (1828: 17)
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view of font - north side
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Bond (1908)
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Rickman 5th ed. (1848)
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image of a drawing by F. Simpson Jr., engraved by Robert Roberts; in Simpson (1828: 17)
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - beaded-tape - columns with capitals and bases - 8
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 July 1998 by BSI
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design element - motifs - scallop
Scene Description: In Simpson's reproduction they appear as shields; part of the 19thC re-carving
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 July 1998 by BSI
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view of basin - interior - drain
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Peter and St. Paul Church - Belton. Belton House's fine gardens make a splendid foreground to this view of Belton's parish church"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © K A, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 September 2009 by K A [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1498941] [accessed 1 August 2016]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: at the west end of the nave, opposite the south doorway
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of iconographic program - detail
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Romilly Allen (1884)
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view of church interior - capital
Scene Description: "Le sonneur", a capital in the church of the Abbaye de Chantelle, Allier, France, similar to the one carved on the font at Belton
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Photo J.F. Pazyniak, [1970?]
Image Source: digital image of a postcard [cf. BSI file for Belton nr Grantham] from Abbaye de Chantelle, Allier
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00289BEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 1998-07-25
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century [re-carved?], Medieval [altered?]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: [cf. FontNotes]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of Saint Paul and Saint Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, by the S entranceway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Paul & St. Peter
Church Notes: a church here first recorded in the Domesday survey; present building mainly 12th and 14thC
Church Address: Washdyke Lane, Belton, Lincolnshire NG32 2LU, United Kingdom
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A607, 4-5 km N of Grantham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Threo
Additional Comments: altered font? (re-carved in the 19thC? -- recycled font; font heavily restored / altered font? [cf. FontNotes])-- Note that copyright permission from the manor house is required for inclusion of photographs of this font for ***commercial*** use. -- disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There are four entries for this Belton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK9339/belton/] [accessed 1 October 2018]; it reports a church in it. Simpson (1828) describes and illustrates this as a Late-Norman font of the 13th century: "all the figures are very rude, but the Font is in good condition, and about five or six years since was entirely freed from whitewash, when some small decayed parts were restored." Simpson also notes in his addenda that the figure ringing the bells may have to do with the name of the place, Belton [i.e., Bell-town]. Illustrated in Rickman (1848). Noted and illustrated in Romilly Allen (1884). Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as 13th-century. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908); the octagonal basin has one round arch per side, containing one figure or animal within each; single-line nail-head motif under the rim and within the arches which rest on polygonal shafts with capitels and bases; large scaloped motif at bottom of bowl which rests on four short round shafts; octagonal base/plinth looks modern. Cox & Harvey (1907) make this font an early Norman one; they describe several of the figures as ecclesiastics; another side contains a man ringing two bells; another, a headsman and a hangman are laying hold of a culprit. Tyrrell-Green (1928) remarks that the image of the bell-ringer on this font alludes to the name of the town [BELTON: bell town] and states that the fonts at Belton, Hereford Cathedral, Micheldean (Gloucs.) and Rendcombe (Gloucs.) were "evidently produced by the same hand, or by the same school of workmen". Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "To accept this as a Norman font demands much credulity. These figures, the bel-ringer, the squirrel, the knight with his square helmet must be romantic reconstruction, even if the bishop and the man and bird may well be original, and altogether the placing of figures in arcading." On-site notes: the warden informed us that locals believe the scenes depict a Viking legend and that the figure with the bird is Odin. The font has an octagonal basin [NB: this font not to be mistaken with another Norman font at the other Belton, in Isle of Axholme, Parish Church of All Saints, also in Lincolnshire]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 660066 5868791
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.944843, -0.617735
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 56′ 41.44″ N, 0° 37′ 3.85″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead-lined [modern]
Rim Thickness: 12-15 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 56-58 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 80-88 cm*
Basin Depth: 30 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 52 cm*
Height of Base: 52 cm* (includes columns and plinth)
Font Height (less Plinth): 105 cm* (includes the plinth columns are resting on)
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site [NB: Simpson's measurements vary slightly]
REFERENCES
- Allen, J. Romilly, "Notes on Early Christian Symbolism", N.S., VI, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1884, pp. 380-464; pl. 24
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 155, 181 (ill. on p. 174)
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 207-208
- Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962, p. 76
- Moule, Thomas, The English counties delineated; or, A topographical description of England [...], London: George Virtue, 1837 [vol. 2], vol. 2: 196
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989, p. 134
- Rickman, Thomas, An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of Architecture in England, from the Conquest to the Reformation, with a Sketch of the Grecian and Roman Orders, An [7th ed. -- orig. published in 1817], Oxford and London: Parker and Co., 1881, [5th ed.] p. 82
- Simpson, Francis, A series of ancient baptismal fonts: chronologically arranged, drwan by F. Simpson, Jun., engraved by R. Roberts, London: Septimus Prowett, 1828, p. 17-18 and addenda
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 77