Kilpeck No. 1 / Chipeete

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animal - reptile - snake - 4

Scene Description: head-down on the sides of the base

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 July 1998 by BSI

human figure - arm - 2

Scene Description: hugging the upper side of the basin

view of church exterior - corbel

Lithograph of a 1841 drawing by G.R. Lewis by William Day (1797-1845) and Louis Haghe (1806-1885), appointed 'Lithographers to the Queen' in 1838

Scene Description: Lithograph of a 1841 drawing by G.R. Lewis by William Day (1797-1845) and Louis Haghe (1806-1885), appointed 'Lithographers to the Queen' in 1838

Image Source: digital image of a drawing in Lewis (1842)

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view of church exterior - corbel

Scene Description: Lithograph of a 1841 drawing by G.R. Lewis by William Day (1797-1845) and Louis Haghe (1806-1885), appointed 'Lithographers to the Queen' in 1838

Image Source: digital image of a drawing in Lewis (1842)

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view of church exterior - corbel

Scene Description: Lithograph of a 1841 drawing by G.R. Lewis by William Day (1797-1845) and Louis Haghe (1806-1885), appointed 'Lithographers to the Queen' in 1838

Image Source: digital image of a drawing in Lewis (1842)

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view of church exterior - corbel

Scene Description: Lithograph of a 1841 drawing by G.R. Lewis by William Day (1797-1845) and Louis Haghe (1806-1885), appointed 'Lithographers to the Queen' in 1838

Image Source: digital image of a drawing in Lewis (1842)

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view of church exterior - corbel

Scene Description: Lithograph of a 1841 drawing by G.R. Lewis by William Day (1797-1845) and Louis Haghe (1806-1885), appointed 'Lithographers to the Queen' in 1838

Image Source: digital image of a drawing in Lewis (1842)

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view of church exterior - corbel - human figure - grotesque or fantastic - Sheilag-na-gig

Scene Description: exterior, south apse

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 July 1998 by BSI

view of church exterior - plan

the numbers refer to the corbels as illustrated in the lithographs of 1841 by G.R. Lewis by William Day (1797-1845) and Louis Haghe (1806-1885), appointed 'Lithographers to the Queen' in 1838

Scene Description: the numbers refer to the corbels as illustrated in the lithographs of 1841 by G.R. Lewis by William Day (1797-1845) and Louis Haghe (1806-1885), appointed 'Lithographers to the Queen' in 1838

Image Source: digital image of a drawing in Lewis (1842)

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view of church exterior - portal

Scene Description: Lithograph of a 1841 drawing by G.R. Lewis by William Day (1797-1845) and Louis Haghe (1806-1885), appointed 'Lithographers to the Queen' in 1838

Image Source: digital image of a drawing in Lewis (1842)

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view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 July 1998 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 July 1998 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 July 1998 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 July 1998 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - west side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 July 1998 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - west side - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 July 1998 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - west side - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 July 1998 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - west side - detail

Scene Description: upper half of the carved column

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 July 1998 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - west side - detail

Scene Description: lower half of the carved column

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 July 1998 by BSI

view of church exterior - tower

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 July 1998 by BSI

view of church exterior - tower - window

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 July 1998 by BSI

view of church exterior - tower - window - detail

Scene Description: lower part of the window

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 July 1998 by BSI

view of church exterior - window - detail

Scene Description: Lithograph of a 1841 drawing by G.R. Lewis by William Day (1797-1845) and Louis Haghe (1806-1885), appointed 'Lithographers to the Queen' in 1838

Image Source: digital image of a drawing in Lewis (1842)

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: Lithograph of a 1841 drawing by G.R. Lewis by William Day (1797-1845) and Louis Haghe (1806-1885), appointed 'Lithographers to the Queen' in 1838

Image Source: digital image of a March 1841 drawing in Lewis (1842)

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view of church interior - chancel

Scene Description: Lithograph of a 1841 drawing by G.R. Lewis by William Day (1797-1845) and Louis Haghe (1806-1885), appointed 'Lithographers to the Queen' in 1838

Image Source: digital image of a drawing in Lewis (1842)

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view of church interior - chancel - detail

Lithograph of a 1841 drawing by G.R. Lewis by William Day (1797-1845) and Louis Haghe (1806-1885), appointed 'Lithographers to the Queen' in 1838 -- Source caption: "The symbols of the Evangelists in the Holly of Hollies"

Scene Description: Lithograph of a 1841 drawing by G.R. Lewis by William Day (1797-1845) and Louis Haghe (1806-1885), appointed 'Lithographers to the Queen' in 1838 -- Source caption: "The symbols of the Evangelists in the Holly of Hollies"

Image Source: digital image of a drawing in Lewis (1842)

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view of church interior - chancel arch - detail

Scene Description: Lithograph of a 1841 drawing by G.R. Lewis by William Day (1797-1845) and Louis Haghe (1806-1885), appointed 'Lithographers to the Queen' in 1838

Image Source: digital image of a drawing in Lewis (1842)

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view of church interior - chancel arch - north side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 July 1998 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel arch - north side - detail

Scene Description: top figure

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 July 1998 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel arch - north side - detail

Scene Description: lower figure

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 July 1998 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel arch - north side - detail

Scene Description: centre figure

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 July 1998 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel arch - south side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 July 1998 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel arch - south side - detail

Scene Description: top figure

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 July 1998 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel arch - south side - detail

Scene Description: lower figure

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 July 1998 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel arch - south side - detail

Scene Description: centre figure

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 July 1998 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: showing the old holy-water stoup at the base of the beautiful chancel arch, left [north] side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 October 2014 by Joanna and Peter Blanchard

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the authors

view of stoup - front side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 July 1998 by BSI

view of stoup - southwest side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 July 1998 by BSI

view of stoup in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00509KIL

Object Type: Stoup

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. David

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. David

Church Location: Castle Park, Kilpeck, County of Herefordshire HR2 9DN, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located about 10-15 km SW of Hereford (S on the A465 to St Devereux, then E to Kilpeck)

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford

Historical Region: Hundred of Archenfield [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the apse, under the chancel arch, N side.

Date: ca. 1150?

Century and Period: 12th century (mid? / late?), Norman

Cognate Fonts: another stoup of this general shape at Llangwm, Mons.

Church Notes: Much Norman art, some of it unique in England, still in place in this church; great portal; Sheila-na-gig in the chancel.

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There is an entry for Kilpeck [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SO4430/kilpeck/] [accessed 19 May 2015]; it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Interesting holy-water stoup of the Norman period; it is, roughly, chalice-shaped, ornamented with a pair of human arms surrounding its upper side of the basin; from the central ring descend several forms (four?) which appear to be snakes. Cox & Harvey (1907) quote the Gentleman's Magazine of 1833: "A small inner bason, serving as a plug to the larger bason, is sculptured to resemble basket work." Bond (1908), obviously unimpressed, describes it as "extraordinarily uncouth". Dated late-12th century in Herefordshire (1931-1934). Clapham (1934) suggests a date ca. 1150. Jenkins (1999) writes that the stoup apparently depicts "a pregnant woman holding her belly." Hutton (1957) mentions four snakes at its base.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.9703, -2.8092

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 58′ 13.08″ N, 2° 48′ 33.12″ W

UTM: 30U 513107 5757752

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted) -- chalice-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 4 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 25 - 28 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 35 cm*

Basin Depth: 13 cm*

Basin Total Height: 23 cm* (w/o the ring)

Height of Base: 30 cm* (w/ ring)

Font Height (less Plinth): 53 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site

REFERENCES

Guide to the Parish of SS. Mary & David, Kilpeck, [Kilpeck, Hereford?]: [?], 1989

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

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1931-1934

Hutton, Graham, English Parish Churches, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976

Jenkins, Simon, England's Thousand Best Churches, London and New York: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999 [2000 rev. printing]

Lewis, G.R., Illustrations of Kilpeck Church, Herefordshire: in a series of drawings made on the spot. With an essay on ecclesiastical design, and a descriptive interpretation, London: G.R. Lewis [...] and [...] William Pickering, 1842

Smith, Edwin, English Parish Churches, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976