Tissington / Tizinctun

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 1998 by BSI

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 1998 by BSI

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view of font

the head of the human being devoured by a dragon on the left; two human figures in the centre; the rump of a lion wit its foliated tail on the right

Scene Description: the head of the human being devoured by a dragon on the left; two human figures in the centre; the rump of a lion wit its foliated tail on the right

Image Source: digital photograph 1 September 2021 by Rita Wood

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Rita Wood (e-mail of 12 October 2021)

view of font and cover

Image Source: photograph taken in 1981 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3270273] [accessed 2 March 2015]

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view of basin - upper view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 1998 by BSI

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animal - mammal - lion - foliated tail - passant-regardant

Scene Description: passant to the right; foliated tail over the back

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 1998 by BSI

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view of iconographic program

Image Source: digital image of a drawing by Rita Wood

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 21 February 2022)

human figure - standing - 2

the head of the human being devoured is still visible on the left; the feet of the two standing figures are still discernible, despite the eroded surface of the basin

Scene Description: the head of the human being devoured is still visible on the left; the feet of the two standing figures are still discernible, despite the eroded surface of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph 1 September 2021 by Rita Wood

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Rita Wood (e-mail of 12 October 2021)

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 1 September 2021 by Rita Wood

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Rita Wood (e-mail of 12 October 2021)

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 1 September 2021 by Rita Wood

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Rita Wood (e-mail of 12 October 2021)

animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - with human prey - passant - detail

the dragon, passant to the right, is devouring a human of whom only the head is still out of the beast's maw; to the right is a standing human

Scene Description: the dragon, passant to the right, is devouring a human of whom only the head is still out of the beast's maw; to the right is a standing human

Image Source: digital photograph 1 September 2021 by Rita Wood

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Rita Wood (e-mail of 12 October 2021)

animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - with human prey - passant - detail

Scene Description: the dragon, passant to the right, is devouring a human of whom only the head is still out of the beast's maw

Image Source: digital photograph 1 September 2021 by Rita Wood

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Rita Wood (e-mail of 12 October 2021)

animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - with human prey - passant

Scene Description: the dragon, passant to the right, is devouring a human of whom only the head is still out of the beast's maw

Image Source: digital photograph 1 September 2021 by Rita Wood

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Rita Wood (e-mail of 12 October 2021)

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the front end of the Agnus Dei on the left, the rear end of the dragon on the right

Image Source: digital photograph 1 September 2021 by Rita Wood

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Rita Wood (e-mail of 12 October 2021)

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the Agnus Dei on the left, the rear end of the dragon on the right

Image Source: digital photograph 1 September 2021 by Rita Wood

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Rita Wood (e-mail of 12 October 2021)

Christ - Agnus Dei - with processional cross - in a circle - passant

Scene Description: passant to the right

Image Source: digital photograph 1 September 2021 by Rita Wood

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Rita Wood (e-mail of 12 October 2021)

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the front end of the bird on the left, the rear end of the Agnus Dei on the right

Image Source: digital photograph 1 September 2021 by Rita Wood

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Rita Wood (e-mail of 12 October 2021)

animal - bird - passant

Scene Description: passant to the right

Image Source: digital photograph 1 September 2021 by Rita Wood

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Rita Wood (e-mail of 12 October 2021)

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the lion on the left, the bird on the right

Image Source: digital photograph 1 September 2021 by Rita Wood

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Rita Wood (e-mail of 12 October 2021)

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the lion on the left, the bird on the right

Image Source: digital photograph 1 September 2021 by Rita Wood

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Rita Wood (e-mail of 12 October 2021)

view of basin

Scene Description: showing the lion passant-regardant

Image Source: digital photograph 1 September 2021 by Rita Wood

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Rita Wood (e-mail of 12 October 2021)

view of basin

Image Source: photograph taken 4 October 1981 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

animal - bird - dove

Scene Description: the Holy Ghost?

Image Source: Rev. Buckley's Short History of Tissington and its Parish Church

Copyright Instructions: Permission received from Rev. Christopher Harrison, vicar at Tissington, 2003 (e-mail of 16 January 2003)

human figure - standing - 2

Scene Description: unidentified

Image Source: Rev. Buckley's Short History of Tissington and its Parish Church

Copyright Instructions: Permission received from Rev. Christopher Harrison, vicar at Tissington, 2003 (e-mail of 16 January 2003)

animal - fish? - whale? - human figure - head

Scene Description: Jonah and the whale?

Image Source: Rev. Buckley's Short History of Tissington and its Parish Church

Copyright Instructions: Permission received from Rev. Christopher Harrison, vicar at Tissington, 2003 (e-mail of 16 January 2003)

Christ - Agnus Dei - with cross - in a circle

Image Source: Rev. Buckley's Short History of Tissington and its Parish Church; reproduced with permission.

Copyright Instructions: Permission received from Rev. Christopher Harrison, vicar at Tissington, 2003 (e-mail of 16 January 2003)

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 1998 by BSI

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view of church exterior - west tower

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 1998 by BSI

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Source caption: "St Mary's church probably dates back to the 12th Century. There is original Norman work to be seen inside the church despite restoration in 1854. Tissington church contains many memorials to the Fitzherbert family, who acquired the village of Tissington in the 15th Century."

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's church probably dates back to the 12th Century. There is original Norman work to be seen inside the church despite restoration in 1854. Tissington church contains many memorials to the Fitzherbert family, who acquired the village of Tissington in the 15th Century."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 July 2006 by Peter Tarleton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/384139] [accessed 2 March 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: photograph taken in 1981 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3270271] [accessed 2 March 2015]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 00794TIS

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Date Visited: 1998-07-17

Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of S nave

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin

Church Address: Rakes Ln, Tissington, Derbyshire DE6 1RA, UK

Site Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located off [E] the A515, near Hognaston, itself about 16 km S of Winster

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Derby

Historical Region: Hundred of Hamston [in Domesday]

Additional Comments: damaged font / repaired font

Font Notes: Click to view

There is an entry for Tissington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SK1752/tissington/] [accessed 2 March 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Cox (1875-1877) suggests a comparison between the "curious figures incised" on this font and those on the lintel and tympanum at Ault Hucknall, and to those on the tympana at Hognaston and Parwich, all in Derbyshire, "but most rarely upon fonts". Cox (ibid.) further notes: "The font was happily recovered and placed again in its old position at the time of the late restoration. It stands two feet high, and is two feet three inches in diameter. The bowl, which is circular and eight inches in depth, is rudely incised on the exterior with a multiplicity of figures, including a bird, a wolf, two men, and a nondescript boar. Tradition says that the font at the adjacent church of Thorpe was formerly ornamented in a similar way." Romilly Allen (1888) writes that "the practice of carving the design with incised outlines on a flat surface, instead of making the figures stand out in relief, is often a sign of early date, and a few instances occur on fonts, as at Tissington and Mellor". Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as one of three Derbyshire tub fonts [Mellor and Thorpe are the other two] which "may safely be assigned to the 11th cent[ury]" and are ornamented with "hunting scenes rudely depicted". Bond (1908), however, argues that the carving is simply archaic and that the font probably dates to the 12th century, a product of the uncouth sculpture style of unsophisticated local masons; Bond (ibid.) mentions a representation of the Agnus Dei on this font. Tisdall (1998?), never shy on the imaginative side, sees "a sea monster delivers up the dead at the end of time". Pevsner (1978) notes: "Font. Norman, tub-shaped, with incised animals, also a snake; very barbaric." On-site notes: the cylindrical font is now very worn and it is therefore difficult to make out the images and scenes on the basin; there appears to be a large bird (Holy Spirit?), an Agnus Dei with a cross in a circle, a lion turning its head toward two figures which are neither haloed nor identifiable, a large beast swallowing a thrid person [Jonah and the whale?]; the basin well is lined with lead (a new lining) and it has a central drainage hole; the lower end of the font is circular, and the whole is now raised on a moden square plinth; evidence of damage and repair is clearly visible in several areas of the basin. No cover present

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Rev. Christopher Harrison, vicar at Tissington, for his kind permission to reproduce the drawings in Reverend Buckley's Short History of the Church and Parish]; We are also grateful to Rita Wood and to Timothy Marlow for their photograph of this font, and for Rita Wood's drawing of the font programme

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 584586 5880521

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.067471, -1.737601

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 4′ 2.9″ N, 1° 44′ 15.37″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: one?

Font Shape: tub-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage System: centre hole in basin

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

Rim Thickness: 8-9 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 49 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 67 cm* / 68.58 cm**

Basin Depth: 25 cm* / 20.32 cm**

Height of Basin Side: 42 cm*

Height of Base: 12 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 54 cm* / 60.96 cm**

Font Height (with Plinth): 80 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** in ft/in in Cox (1875-1877)

REFERENCES

Allen, J. Romilly, "On the Antiquity of Fonts in Great Britain", XLIV, Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 1888, pp. 164-173; p. 171
Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958, p. 135
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 139, 167
Cox, John Charles J., English Church Fittings Furniture and Accessories, London: B.T. Batsford, 1922, p. 88
Cox, John Charles, 1875-1877
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 194, 195
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Derbyshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978, p. 28, 344
Tisdall, M. W., God's beasts: identify and understand animals in church carvings, England: Charlesfort Press, 1998?, ill. 305, p. 154