Ewelme No. 1 / Lauelme / Lauuelme / Lawelme
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B01: symbol - shield
Scene Description: One inside each of the quatrefoil motifs of the basin sides
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B02: design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled - 8
Scene Description: One large, on each of the basin side panels
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BU01: design element - patterns - tracery
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LB01: design element - architectural - window - Gothic
Scene Description: One on each side of the stem of the base, a double trefoil arch window
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LID01: angel - archangel - St. Michael
Scene Description: as finial of the font cover
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view of font and cover
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: notice the graffiti on the lining
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view of basin - interior
Scene Description: notice the graffiti
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view of church exterior - north view
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view of church exterior - east side
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view of church exterior - detail
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view of church exterior - west tower - detail
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view of church exterior - east view
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view of basin and cover
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view of church interior - monument - tomb - Alice Chaucer, countess of Salisbury, duchess of Suffolk
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view of church interior - monument - tomb - Alice Chaucer, countess of Salisbury, duchess of Suffolk
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view of church interior - monument - tomb - Alice Chaucer, countess of Salisbury, duchess of Suffolk
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Scene Description: genealogical chart of the arms on the tomb of Thomas Chaucer and Maud Burghersh
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view of church interior - nave - detail
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view of church interior - monument - tomb - Alice Chaucer, countess of Salisbury, duchess of Suffolk
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view of church interior - monument - tomb - Alice Chaucer, countess of Salisbury, duchess of Suffolk
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view of church interior - monument - tomb - Alice Chaucer, countess of Salisbury, duchess of Suffolk
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view of church interior - monument - tomb - Alice Chaucer, countess of Salisbury, duchess of Suffolk
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view of church interior - monument - tomb - Alice Chaucer, countess of Salisbury, duchess of Suffolk
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view of church interior - monument - tomb - Alice Chaucer, countess of Salisbury, duchess of Suffolk
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view of church interior - detail
Scene Description: old tile at the base of the font
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view of church interior - nave - detail
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view of font cover - pulley and counterweight
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view of church exterior - tombstone - Jerome K. Jerome
Scene Description: the writer; of "Three men on a boat" fame
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view of church exterior - detail
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view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - detail
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Scene Description: knapped stone forming the checkered effect
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Scene Description: checkered effect on the east wall
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view of font cover
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Image Source: B&W photograph in Davies (1962: pl. 24 [detail])
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01071EWE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2007-06-03
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (mid?), Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: Ufford (lid only)
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin [earlier All Saints']
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin [earlier dedicated to All Saints]
Church Notes: Paley (1844) informs that the church at Ewelme "was built about the middle of the fifteenth century, by the Duke and Duchess of Suffolk", and the latter was the grand-daughter of Chaucer.
Church Address: Parson's Ln, Ewelme, Wallingford OX10 6HS, UK
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B4009 [aka The Sands], 2-3 km E of Benson, 5-6 km NE of Wallingford, about 25 kms ESE of Oxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Ewelme -- Hundred of Benson [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 11th-12thC church here [cf. FontNotes])
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for Ewelme [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SU6491/ewelme/] [accessed 28 June 2019] none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Illustrated in Frederick Mackenzie's copper engraving for Skelton's 1823 book 'Antiquities of Oxfordshire'. Described in Tymms (1834): "octagonal, richly sculptured, with magnificent cover of tabernacle work." The main attraction of this font is actually the cover. The font itself, dating from the 15th century, in the Perpendicular style, is octagonal, the panels of the basin sides being oblong rather than square, which, in combination with the towering effect of the magnificent lid, gives the basin a "stumpy" look, as if it had been squashed by the weight of the cover. The basin sides are ornamented with plain shields inside quatrefoil windows. The octagonal base has double trefoil-arch windows. Paley (1844) has a description of the lid: "On entering the Church of Ewelme, at either door, the first object which meets the eye is the magnificent cover of the Font, raising its spiral form with its numerous arches, buttresses, and pinnacles high towards the roof. It consists of four tiers of arches, ending in a spire richly crocketed, and surmounted by a figure of St. Michael. The plan is that of a small octagon in the centre, from which six perforated buttresses radiate to the angles and sides of the outer frame, and these are connected by foliated arches with pierced canopies, the base being ornamented with the Tudor flower. The original fell down about sixteen years ago, and was very much mutilated; sufficient, however, remained uninjured to enable J. Plowman, Esq., Architect, Oxford, to make a perfect and faithful restoration of every part, which was done under the direction and at the sole cost of the late Edward Burton, D.D., Rector of the Parish." The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "The font is P[erpendicular], wit a very elaborate pyramidal wooden cover". Murray (1882) notes that the cover deserves notice. Sherwood & Pevsner (1974), Jenkins (1999) and the Church Guide [s.d.] inform that the cover was presented by John, the 2nd Duke of Suffolk in 1475, after the death of his mother, Alice, Duchess of Suffolk. The Guide gives the height of the cover as 10 1/2 feet and identifies the finial figure as St. Michael, and notes that the restoration of the cover "was done after the canopy fell in 1823". The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 18, 2016) notes: "In the late Anglo-Saxon period Ewelme was probably subject to Benson, [...] but an independent church existed by the 1180s when it had its own rector, glebe, and tithes, [...] and probably (as in the 14th century) baptismal and burial rights. [...] Most likely it was founded in the 11th or 12th century [...] The dedication in the 1340s–60s was to All Saints, [...] but was changed to St Mary the Virgin before 1478, perhaps following mid 15th-century rebuilding. [...] The present-day church is largely the result of rebuildings by the Chaucers and (particularly) the de la Polesbetween the 1420s and 1470s [...] The octagonal font, with its spectacular multi-tiered oak canopy [...], is of similar date."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 633817 5720275
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.61758, -1.0671
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 37′ 3.29″ N, 1° 4′ 1.56″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Rim Thickness: 12.5 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 61 cm [55 cm]*
Diameter (includes rim): 86-92 cm [80 cm]*
Basin Depth: 29 cm [32.5 cm]*
Height of Basin Side: 20 x 28 cm
Basin Total Height: 30 cm [34 cm]*
Height of Base: 68.5 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 98.5 cm [102.5 cm]*
Notes on Measurements: BSI -- Height of the lid: 3.15 m. [10ft. 6in.] [Paley (1844)]* and Church Guide [s.d.]
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Notes: there is graffiti on the lead lining
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1475 [re-built later]
Material: wood
Apparatus: Counterpoised, with a balanced weight being a large Tudor-Lancastrian rose (Bond, 1985 c1908, p. 298). [cf. also font notes]
Notes: [cf. FontNotes and LidInformation] The font is said to have been made of single tree-trunk
REFERENCES
- Guide to St. Mary's Church, Ewelme and to the Almshouse and the School, [Ewelme?]: [The Church?], [1994?], p. 7
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Bloxam, Matthew Holbeche, The Principles of Gothic ecclesiastical architecture, with an explanation of technical terms […], London: W. Kent, 1859, p. 369
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 285, 287, 298 and ill. on p. 288
- Cox, John Charles J., English Church Fittings Furniture and Accessories, London: B.T. Batsford, 1922, p. 19
- Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962, ix, 71 and pl. 24
- Howard, F.E., English Church Woodwork: a Study in Craftmanship during the Mediaeval period A.D. 1250-1550, London: B.T. Batsford, 1919, p. 327
- Jenkins, Simon, England's Thousand Best Churches, London and New York: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999 [2000 rev. printing], p. 543
- Murray, John [the firm], Handbook for travellers in Berks. Bucks and Oxfordshire, including a [...], London: John Murray, 1882, p. 260
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 25 et al.
- 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, [unpaged -- entry 13]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974, p. 597
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974, pl. 41
- Skelton, Joseph, Skelton's engraved illustrations of the principal antiquities of Oxfordshire, from the original drawings of F. Mackenzie, Oxford: J. Skelton, 1823, plate
- Tymms, Samuel, Family Topographer, being a compendious account of the antient and present state of the counties of England: vol. IV, Oxford circuit, London: Nichols & Son, 1834, p. 137