Melbourne nr. Derby / Meleburn / Mileburne

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Results: 14 records

design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: forming the bases of the columnar supports

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

view of church exterior - portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "Melbourne Parish Church side door. The small door with a Norman Arch"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Malcolm Neal, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 February 2017 by Malcolm Neal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5276157] [accessed 17 May 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior - southeast end

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Lally, 2010

Image Source: edited detail of a photograph taken 28 March 2010 by David Lally [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1790312] [accessed 17 May 2017] [NB: image corrected for lens distortion and over-saturation]

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view of church interior - nave - capital

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 April 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4927908] [accessed 17 May 2017]

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view of church interior - nave - capital - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 April 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4927919] [accessed 17 May 2017]

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view of church interior - nave - capital - detail

Scene Description: a lion with vegetation stemming from its mouth, a classic of Norman sculpture, as is the interlace below the head

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 April 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4927911] [accessed 17 May 2017]

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view of church interior - nave - capital - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Melbourne Parish Church, Norman capitals: The cross with four roundels motif. Its meaning has never been explained,"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 April 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4927893] [accessed 17 May 2017]

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view of church interior - nave - capital - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 April 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4927903] [accessed 17 May 2017]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrewrabbott, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 July 2015 by Andrewrabbott [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nave_of_St_Michael_and_St_Mary's_Church,_Melbourne_01.jpg] [accessed 17 May 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font is visible at the far [west] end

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrewrabbott, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 July 2015 by Andrewrabbott [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nave_of_St_Michael_and_St_Mary's_Church,_Melbourne_02.jpg] [accessed 17 May 2017]

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view of church interior - painting

Scene Description: Source caption: "The painting shows the demon Titivillus hovering over two women who are arguing over a round object and who have a smaller demon on their backs."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrewrabbott, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 July 2015 by Andrewrabbott [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Medieval_wall_painting,_St_Michael_and_St_Mary,_Melbourne,_Derbyshire.jpg] [accessed 17 May 2017]

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view of church interior - painting

Scene Description: Source caption: "Melbourne Parish Church: Medieval wall painting. The demon, Tutivillus hovers over two women each having a demon on their back."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 April 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4927905] [accessed 17 May 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 April 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4927898] [accessed 17 May 2017]

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

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

INFORMATION

FontID: 00507MEL
Church/Chapel: Church of St. Michael and St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & St. Mary
Church Location: Church Square, Melbourne, Derby DE73 8JH, UK -- Tel.: +44 1332 862153
Country Name: England
Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the B587, 8-10 km SSE of Derby
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ferby
Historical Region: Hundred of Walecros
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end, centre of the nave, just inside the narthex
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman
Cognate Fonts: similar, though not identical, to the font at Wirksworth, in the same county, and not unlike that at Youlgrave, but without the ornamentation and the extra mini-basin
Church Notes: present church started ca. 1133, completed 13thC; expanded 15th-1thC; major restoration mid-19thC;
There is an entry for this Melbourne [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK3825/melbourne/] [accessed 9 March 2023]; it reports a priest and a church in it. Lysons (1806-1833) note a "font is in the shape of a basin, standing on four legs". In Glover (1831) probably after Lysons. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Noted in Pevsner (1978): "Font. Norman; simple bowl on four squat columns." On-site notes: the outer surface of the basin is completely smooth; the only ornamentation on the font is the flat moulding on the upper rim and the moulded bases of the support columns; the flat round wooden lid with metal ornamentation is modern. Similar, though not identical, to the font at Wirksworth, in the same county, and not unlike that at Youlgrave, but without the ornamentation and the extra mini-basin.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.820958, -1.4242
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 49′ 15.45″ N, 1° 25′ 27.12″ W
UTM: 30U 606186 5853517

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: cauldron-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 8.5-10 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 51-52 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 70 cm*
Basin Depth: 20 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 40 cm*
Basin Total Height: 50 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 94 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

The History and gazetteer of the County of Derby: drawn up from actual observation and from the best authorities [...] the materials collected by the publisher Stephen Glover. Edited by Thomas Noble [...], Derby: Stephen Glover. Printed for the publisher by Henry Mozley and Son, 1831
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Lysons, Daniel, Magna Britannia, being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain, London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Derbyshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978