Catthorpe / Torp
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B01: design element - motifs - leaf
Scene Description: Several high-relief leaves around the bowl
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in B&W photograph in Bond (1908)
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Christ - Agnus Dei - with cross
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in B&W photograph in Bond (1908)
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design element - motifs - moulding
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00306CAT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2000-07-18
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Transitional
Cognate Fonts: The font at Iford (East Sussex) and the larger of the two fonts in St Marys' Cathedral, Limerick (Co. Limerick, Ireland)
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Thomas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Thomas
Church Address: Rugby Rd, Catthorpe LE17 6DB, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1858 882032
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Catthorpe off (SW) the junction of the M1 and M6, 5 km NE of Rugby, 16 km E of Coventry
Historical Region: Hundred of Guthlaxton [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: [NB: site visited on 18 July 2000: no access. The church is usually locked and the key is only available at "The Manor Farm" nearby. Returned twice: no access.]
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Catthorpe [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SP5578/catthorpe/] [accessed 31 January 2023]; it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The font is noted and illustrated in Upcottt (1818). Described and illustrated in Bond (1908). Described in Pevsner (1984): "Font. Circular, C13, with odd sparse small leaf forms." The entry foor this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SP5520578166] notes: "Parish Church. Early C14, C15, restored 1886 […] C13 font with circular bowl on 4 short shafts. Bowl has decoration of widely spaced head and leaf forms and band around rim." The font at Catthorpe resembles somewhat the Cornish fonts at Roche and Bodmin. The upper rim of this font is badly worn but shows carving all around; the sides of the cauldron-like basin have several high-relief large leaves as ornament; half way down the underbowl on one side a rather crude Agnus Dei with the Cross. The lower base is round. The whole appears to have been carved from a single block of stone.
There is an entry for Catthorpe [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SP5578/catthorpe/] [accessed 31 January 2023]; it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The font is noted and illustrated in Upcottt (1818). Described and illustrated in Bond (1908). Described in Pevsner (1984): "Font. Circular, C13, with odd sparse small leaf forms." The entry foor this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SP5520578166] notes: "Parish Church. Early C14, C15, restored 1886 […] C13 font with circular bowl on 4 short shafts. Bowl has decoration of widely spaced head and leaf forms and band around rim." The font at Catthorpe resembles somewhat the Cornish fonts at Roche and Bodmin. The upper rim of this font is badly worn but shows carving all around; the sides of the cauldron-like basin have several high-relief large leaves as ornament; half way down the underbowl on one side a rather crude Agnus Dei with the Cross. The lower base is round. The whole appears to have been carved from a single block of stone.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 623141 5806925
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.3987, -1.19007
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 23′ 55.32″ N, 1° 11′ 24.25″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: cauldron-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 209, 217 and ill. on p. 220
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984, p. 128
- Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818, [vol. IV, part I, p. 525 and pl. xix / [http://books.google.com/books?id=gLwuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA228&lpg=PA228&dq=upcott+1818&source=web&ots=lJwT-K00zU&sig=oVT6Kc6G03vqjYf4Synuk_Aek9w#PPP15,M1] [accessed 30 September 2007]