Padiham / Padiam / Padingham / Padyngham

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 01150PAD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1525?
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(early?), Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: The font at Altham, also in Lancs.
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the Starkie Chapel
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Leonard
Church Address: Church St, Padiham, Burnley BB12 8HG, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1282 772442
Site Location: Lancashire, North West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km WNW of Burnley
Additional Comments: [date of presentation]
Font Notes:
Raines' annotated edition of Gastrell's Notitia cestriensis (1845- ) notes about 'Padiam' church: "This Church was originally a Chantry, founded before the year 1451 by John Marsshall L.L.B. [...] The East window contains the arms of Abbot Paslew [...] The Font was probably presented by Abbot Paslew about the year 1525, and bears his arms upon it. At this time the Chapel is supposed to have obtained the rights of Baptism and Sepulture, and thus to have become Parochial In the year 1650." Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a heraldic baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Described in the Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 6, 1911): "The old octagonal stone font presented by John Paslew, last Abbot of Whalley, in 1525 has been preserved. Its sides are panelled and carved with the emblems of the Passion and the sacred monograms in shields, and a shield charged with three molets." Noted in Pevsner (1969) and in Hartwell & Pevsner (2009): "Font. Octagonal, Late Perp[endicular], with panels containing elementary carvings of the Instruments of the Passion, the M for Mary, the IHS for Jesus, and a shield (cf. Altham)." The Parish guide (4th ed.: 4-5) [http://padihamparish.org/ShortGuideStL4thEd.pdf] [accessed 30 September 2010] locates the font in the Starkie Chapel, and describes the font, and the 1938 wooden cover "given by the Noble family in 1938"; the latter has panels with the of the Diocese of Blackburn, emblem of coal mines, image of St. Leonard, patron saint of the church, emblem of local commerce (scales, money, fishes), arms of the province of York, emblem of farming, emblem of Padiham, emblem of textile mills, etc.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 544993 5961726
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.80215, -2.316839
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 48′ 7.74″ N, 2° 19′ 0.62″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: initials
Inscription Location: on the panels of the basin
Inscription Text: "M" / "IHS"
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNOtes]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes and Images area]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1938
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 170, 205
  • Gastrell, Francis, Right Rev., Notitia cestriensis, of historcal notices of the Diocese of Chester [...], Cheshire: Printed for the Chetham Society, 1845-1850, vol. 2, pt. 2: 343
  • Hartwell, Clare, Lancashire North, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2009, p. 490
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lancashire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1969, p. 187