Mortlake / Mortelaga / Mortelage / Mortelak / Mortelake

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Christ - Agnus Dei?

Scene Description: "a paschal lamb", on the west side of the basin [cf. FontNotes]

animal - bird

Scene Description: "a square bird design", on the northwest side of the basin [cf. FontNotes]

coat of arms - Archbishop Bourchier (1406-1486) - in a square flower

Scene Description: "a cross engrailed between four water-bougets", on the northeast side of the font [cf. FontNotes] -- seen here on the right

Image Source: digital photograph in the St Mary the Virgin, Mortlake, site [http://stmarymortlake.org.uk/life-events/baptisms/] [accessed 9 March 2016]

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coat of arms - Bourchier knot

Scene Description: on the east side of the basin [cf. FontNotes] -- seen here on the left

Image Source: digital photograph in the St Mary the Virgin, Mortlake, site [http://stmarymortlake.org.uk/life-events/baptisms/] [accessed 9 March 2016]

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coat of arms - See of Canterbury

Scene Description: on the south side of the basin [cf. FontNotes]

design element - motifs - floral - rose

Scene Description: on the southwest side of the basin [cf. FontNotes]

design element - motifs - floral - square flower

Scene Description: on the southwest of the basin [cf. FontNotes]

symbol - shield - letter T - crowned

Scene Description: on the north side of the basin [cf. FontNotes]

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2013 by Mightyhansa [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary_the_Virgin_Mortlake_South_view.JPG] [accessed 9 March 2016]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph by Bob Jones in The Lost City of London [http://lostcityoflondon.co.uk/2016/01/26/mortlake/] [accessed 9 March 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01181MOR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Mortlake High St, London SW14 8JA, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Greater London, South East

Directions to Site: Located by the S Circular Rd and the B251 crossroads, S of the Thames, W of Barnes and Putney, just NE of Richmond Park

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwark

Historical Region: Hundred of Brixton -- formerly Surrey

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Cognate Fonts: similarities with the fonts at Mitcham and Morden, also in Surrey

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Mortlake [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TQ2075/mortlake/] [accessed 9 March 2016]; it reports a church in it. Illustrated with an engraving in Manning and Bray (1804). Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 notes: "The font, ornamented with rich tracery, was the gift of Archbishop Bourchier". Brayley (1850) notes that Domesday (1086) reports a church in 'Mortlage' and a font in the present church: "The font, which is octagonal, and of stone, was probably given by [...] as it includes his arms". Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the 15th century, the Perpendicular period, ornamented with "the arms of Archbishop Bruchier (1454-81)" [NB: Archbishop (Thomas) Bourchier, (1406-1486), installed as Archbishop of Canterbury in 1454]. The Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 4, 1912) appears to ignore the Domesday record and notes: "The first church was founded in 1348 [...] and stood to the west of the present building. [...] The font dates from the 15th century and was the gift of Archbishop Bourchier. It has an octagonal bowl and stem with traceried sides; on the quatrefoil panels of the bowl are shields with arms and other devices as follows: east, shield with the Bourchier knot; north-east, a square flower in which is a shield of the arms of Bourchier, a cross engrailed between four water-bougets; north, a shield with a device of a crowned T; north-west, a square bird design; west, a paschal lamb; south-west, square flower; south, arms of the see of Canterbury; southwest, a rose."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.4695, -0.2616

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 28′ 10.2″ N, 0° 15′ 41.76″ W

UTM: 30U 690191 5705594

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-03-09 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Brayley, Edward Wedlake, A topographical history of Surrey, London: G. Willis, 1850

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

Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831