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B01: design element - architectural - arcade

Scene Description: PHOTOS OF INT + FONT DETAIL digital photograph taken by Snaarman [http://e-group.uk.net/forum/showthread.php?t=11390] [accessed 25 May 2015] NO KNOWN... CRSBI FONT EAST B&W photograph taken by Ron Baxter, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1216/] [accessed 25 May 2015] CRSBI FONT NORTH B&W photograph taken by Ron Baxter, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1216/] [accessed 25 May 2015] CRSBI FONT SOUTHEAST B&W photograph taken by Ron Baxter, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1216/] [accessed 25 May 2015] CRSBI FONT WEST B&W photograph taken by Ron Baxter, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1216/] [accessed 25 May 2015]

design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns with capitals and bases

Scene Description: the capitals and bases are of basic design; the arch-heads are quite thick -- the west side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 14 August 2013 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3605212] [accessed 25 May 2015]

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design element - motifs - chevron - nested chevrons

Scene Description: on a column-like arrangement on the west side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 14 August 2013 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3605212] [accessed 25 May 2015]

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design element - motifs - varied

Scene Description: a number of column-like motifs, some may represent crosses [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 14 August 2013 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3605212] [accessed 25 May 2015]

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design element - motifs - wheel - 6-spoke

Scene Description: on a double stem -- detail of the northwest side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 October 2010 by Snaarman [http://e-group.uk.net/forum/showthread.php?t=11390] [accessed 25 May 2015]

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human figure - grotesque or fantastic - head

Scene Description: detail of the northwest side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate] -- not al the heads are similar; some may be animal's or fabulous animal's

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 October 2010 by Snaarman [http://e-group.uk.net/forum/showthread.php?t=11390] [accessed 25 May 2015]

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view of basin - east side

Image Source: B&W photograph taken by Ron Baxter, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1216/] [accessed 25 May 2015]

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view of basin - north side

Image Source: B&W photograph taken by Ron Baxter, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1216/] [accessed 25 May 2015]

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view of basin - southeast side

Image Source: B&W photograph taken by Ron Baxter, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1216/] [accessed 25 May 2015]

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view of basin - west side

Image Source: B&W photograph taken by Ron Baxter, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1216/] [accessed 25 May 2015]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2013 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3605003] [accessed 25 May 2015]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2004 by Mick Crawley [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2257053] [accessed 25 May 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 October 2010 by Snaarman [http://e-group.uk.net/forum/showthread.php?t=11390] [accessed 25 May 2015]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2013 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3605212] [accessed 25 May 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01011ENB

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels

Church Location: Church Lane, Enborne, Berkshire, RG20 0HB

Country Name: England

Location: Berkshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located 5 km WSW of Newbury

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford [formerly in the Diocese of Salisbury]

Historical Region: Hundred of Kintbury [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Kintbury Eagle

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end of the S aisle

Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman? / Transitional?

Cognate Fonts: Sherburn, Yorkshire [cf. FontNotes]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are four entries for Enborne [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU4365/enborne/] [accessed 25 May 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. A font here is noted in Parker (1850): "The font is N[orman], circular, with an arcade around it." Similarly noted in Murray (1882). Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 4, 2011] notes: "The nave with its north and south aisles dates from the 12th century and the chancel is of a century later. [...] The font stands at the east end of the south aisle and consists of a 12th-century cylindrical unmounted bowl 19½ in. high on a modern base. It is enriched with an arcading of sixteen small semicircular 'arches' carried on shafts or pillars with capitals and moulded bases, above which in the spandrels is a series of small heads. The space inclosed by two of the arches is blank, but in the remaining cases is filled with various upright ornaments, the precise signification of which is difficult to determine." The VCH (ibid.) quotes from Keyser [(C. E. Keyser in Trans. Newbury Dist. Field Club, v. 109)]: "On the east side is a six-spoked wheel on a stem (?), and we may also notice a cross, various implements and figures supported on pillars, zigzags, cable and beading'". Listed as Norman in Tyrrell-Green (1928) with a group of tub-shaped vessels reduced to approximately the height of the inner well, hence that of a "normal" basin [other English fonts listed in that group are: Berrington, Rothley and West Thorney]. The ornamentation on this font is described in Tyrrell-Green (ibid., p. 78-79) as an arcade, each bay of which is "occupied by a staff, the heads of the staves assuming a variety of forms, some of these figures at Enborne being apparently representations of the crosses erected in early times in churchyards or by the wayside." The font at Sherburn, in Yorkshire, is given as a similar example. The font is illustrated, and its details individually described, in the CRSBI (2015): "W end of N aisle, drum-shaped. Carved with an arcade of 16 bays, having round-headed arches with cushion capitals carried on half columns with attic bases, some badly worn. The bases rest on a plain, continuous plinth, and the rim has a roll moulding. Various motifs are carved within the bays and in the spandrels as follows (starting from E and numbering clockwise): Bay 1 Spiral (cable) column capped with worn, semicircular object.Bay 2 Empty. Bay 3 Spiral (cable) column capped with short spike.Bay 4 Plain half column, widening at top. Bay 5 Plain half column capped with voided cross. Bay 6 Plain half column capped with voided pelta. Bay 7 Paired half columns with spoked wheel head. Bay 8 Fillet, double chamfered with semicircular cap. Bay 9 Band of directional chevron, alternating roll and hollow, pointing upwards capped with inverted W-motif. Bay 10 Plain half column capped with a plain boss on cross arms.Bay 11 Continuous arch of plain roll profile. Bay 12 Broad fillet with semicircular top, voided to leave outline only. Bay 13 Two half columns, each with roundel head, the 2 roundels touching. Bay 14 Broad fillet with double arched head, ornamented with a vertical chain of 9 bosses.Bay 15 Plain half column capped with semicircular motif. Bay 16 Empty. [...] Spandrels: Bay 1-2 Human head. Bay 2-3 ?Bird head (worn). Bay 3-4 Beast head. Bay 4-5 Human head with beast ears. Bay 5-6 ?Bird (worn). Bay 6-7 Head (worn). Bay 7-8 Human head. Bay 8-9 Human head. Bay 9-10 ?Horned head (worn). Bay 10-11 Head. Bay 11-12 Boss. Bay 12-13 Horned head. Bay 13-14 Boss with volutes at top. Bay 14-15 Moustached head. Bay 15-16 Head. Bay 16-1 Head with fringe. [...] The font [...] belongs to [...] perhaps in the first quarter of the 12thc., and may be contemporary with the original, aisleless church."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.386884, -1.376264

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 23′ 12.78″ N, 1° 22′ 34.55″ W

UTM: 30U 612983 5694100

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: tub-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

Rim Thickness: 9 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 59 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 77 cm*

Basin Total Height: 77 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2008)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: round, with bulky decoration atop; modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-11-04 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2011-11-04 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England: Oxfordshire, Oxford, London: Published under the sanction of the Central Commitee of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland [by] John Henry Parker, 1850

T., D.R., "Llangwm Ucha, Monmouthshire", 4th Series, No. 29 (1877), Archaeologia Cambrensis, 1877, pp. 40-51; r["References"]

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928