North Bradley

Results: 15 records

B07: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - angel - on a shield - in a foiled window

On the west side of the basin
Scene Description: On the west side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wiltshire County Council Libraries & Heritage, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph of 2004 in the Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre, Chippenham [http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getchurch.php?id=755] [accessed 21 December 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B08: symbol - shield - emblem - Christ - the instruments of the Passion - cross, chalice, pincers

on the northwest side; Buck (1951) suggests that there is an obliterated symbol on the left side [the hammer?]
Scene Description: on the northwest side; Buck (1951) suggests that there is an obliterated symbol on the left side [the hammer?]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wiltshire County Council Libraries & Heritage, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph of 2004 in the Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre, Chippenham [http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getchurch.php?id=755] [accessed 21 December 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

B09: design element - architectural - column - 8

one at each angle of the basin
Scene Description: one at each angle of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wiltshire County Council Libraries & Heritage, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph of 2004 in the Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre, Chippenham [http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getchurch.php?id=755] [accessed 21 December 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

BU01: design element - motifs - tracery

on the convex underbowl chamfer
Scene Description: on the convex underbowl chamfer
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wiltshire County Council Libraries & Heritage, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph of 2004 in the Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre, Chippenham [http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getchurch.php?id=755] [accessed 21 December 2008]
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LB01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - 8 arches - trefoiled arches

One arch on each side of the octagonal stem
Scene Description: One arch on each side of the octagonal stem
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wiltshire County Council Libraries & Heritage, 2008
Image Source: digtal photograph of 2004 in the Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre, Chippenham [http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getchurch.php?id=755] [accessed 21 December 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

LB02: design element - architectural - buttress - moulded - 8

more like the downwards continuation of the colonnettes of the basin angles
Scene Description: more like the downwards continuation of the colonnettes of the basin angles
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wiltshire County Council Libraries & Heritage, 2008
Image Source: digtal photograph of 2004 in the Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre, Chippenham [http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getchurch.php?id=755] [accessed 21 December 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged]
Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font and cover

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wiltshire County Council Libraries & Heritage, 2008
Image Source: digtal photograph of 2004 in the Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre, Chippenham [http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getchurch.php?id=755] [accessed 21 December 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Buck, 1951
Image Source: B&W photograph in Buck (1951)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

Font ID: 01183BRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Evangelists' font / heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: a similar font, of somewhat later date, at nearby Trowbridge
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, centre of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: Church Lane, North Bradley, Wiltshire, BA14 0SJ
Site Location: Wiltshire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 3 km S of Trowbridge, 17-18 km ESE of Bath
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Whorwellsdown
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the earlier one from the medieval church?)
Font Notes:
Described and illustrated in Paley (1844) as an octagonal mounted "Perpendicular Font of rather late date, but of good design", the basin has "doubly feathered quatrefoils enclosing shields, four of which are filled with the evangelistic emblems, and the remaining ones with those of the crucifixion." The stem of the base has a trefoil arch on each of the eight sides, the shafts being round and resting on long moulded bases. The plinth is octagonal with a two-step priest's stone. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907): "an apt illustration of dignified work towards the close of the 15th cent.; the octagonal bowl has double-feathered quatrefoils enclosing shields, four of which have the Evangelistic symbols, and the other four those of the Passion." Described and illustrated in Buck (1951) with reference to Paley [cf. supra] and date of the late-14th or early-15th century; Buck (ibid.) gives details of the decoratin on each panel of the basin sides. The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 8, 1965) notes: "A deed of the earlier 12th century mentions the monasterium of Bradley; (fn. 33) since nothing is known of any religious foundation there, it is probable that it refers to a chapel in the village. [...] A good deal of it was rebuilt in 1862, [...] but the previous building seems to have been carefully copied. [...] The font is a large one of the late 15th century, octagonal, and bearing on its panels symbols of the Passion and emblems of the evangelists." Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Good, big Perp[endicular] piece, octagonal with carved shields in foiled fields. On the shields the Signs of the Evangelists and the Instruments of the Passion."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 555773 5683491

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Rim Thickness: 12.5 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 55 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 80 cm
Basin Depth: 35 cm
Basin Total Height: 40 cm
Height of Base: 58.5 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 98.5 cm
Notes on Measurements: Paley (1844: unpaged)

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • Buck, A.G. Randle, "Some Wiltshire fonts. Part III", LIV, CXCV (December 1951), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1951, pp. 192-209; p. 193 and pl. VIII.46
  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 170, 226, 227
  • Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 358
  • Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 14, 18fn, 28 et al.