Chesterfield
Image copyright © John Ward, 2009
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Results: 4 records
B01: design element - motifs - scroll work
Scene Description: very worn now
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Ward, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph 29 March 2009 by John Ward
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B02: symbol - cross - fleuronnée
Scene Description: very worn now
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Ward, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph 29 March 2009 by John Ward
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Ward, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph 29 March 2009 by John Ward
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font in context
Scene Description: in the south transept, not its original position
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Ward, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 29 March 2009 by John Ward
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01092CHE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [composite font?], Medieval / composite
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary and All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S transept [not its original position]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin & All Saints
Church Address: Church Way, Chesterfield S40 1XJ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1246 206506
Site Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 15 km S of Sheffield
Additional Comments: recycled font?: damaged font -- buried font - damaged font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as one of the several Norman tub fonts "characteristically ornamented". Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a "very much worn and defaced bowl" ornamented with a wide band of scroll-work. Listed in Stocker (1997) as one in a group of "font bowls buried in churchyard or adjacent vicarage garden". Noted in Pevsner (1978): "Font. Norman, tub-shaped, with leaf decoration; also a foliated cross; badly preserved." Noted and illustrated in John Ward [http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshirechurches/3418046478/in/set-72157616330904355/] [accessed 7 September 2009]: "The Font. The oldest artefact in the church and is thought to date from c.890-1050 AD. Originally it stood with little or no base, at floor level. Having spent about 250 years in the vicarage garden discarded and in use as a plant pot, it was returned in 1898 to its present position and set on a new marble plinth in the south transept."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Ward, of Oxfordshire Churches [http://homepage.mac.com/john.ward/oxfordshirechurches], for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 605156 5899708
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.23623, -1.424413
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 14′ 10.43″ N, 1° 25′ 27.89″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles J., English Church Fittings Furniture and Accessories, London: B.T. Batsford, 1922, p. 88
- 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, 142
- Stocker, D.A., "Fons et origo: The Symbolic Death and Resurrection of English Font Stones", I (1997b), Church Archaeology, 1997, pp. 17-25; p. 25
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 55