Youlgreave / Youlgrave
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B01: design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis
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BD201: animal - reptile - salamander?
Scene Description: around the underbowl of the auxiliary basin
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view of font
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view of basin's top
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view of basin - underbowl - detail
Scene Description: the salamander (?) carving, seen here rotated vertically
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Northamptonshire Libraries and Information Service, 2007
Image Source: watercolour by Mrs. Bagnall Oakeley of Newland, 1886, in the Sir Hnery Dryden Collection, Northampton, in the Visual Arts Data Service [www.vads.ahds.ac.uk] [accessed 4 November 2007]
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view of basin - detail
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Image Source: detail of a watercolour by Mrs. Bagnall Oakeley of Newland, 1886, in the Sir Hnery Dryden Collection, Northampton, in the Visual Arts Data Service [www.vads.ahds.ac.uk] [accessed 4 November 2007]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01200YOU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 1998-07-17
Font Date: ca. 1200?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font (variant) -- font with appendage
Cognate Fonts: More English fonts with appendages at Alvington (Gloucs), Castle Combe Wilts), Feniton (Devon), Iron Acton (Gloucs), Odiham (Hants), Pitsford (Nhants), Sutton Bonnington (Notts), Youlgreave (Derbys), etc. [There are many fonts in France that have larger projections or are actually double-fonts]
Church / Chapel Name: All Saints' Church [orig. from Elton?]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Notes: The All Saints' church at Youlgreave is dated to the mid-12th century
Church Address: 26 Church St, Youlgreave, Bakewell DE45 1WL, United Kingdom -- : +44 1629 636814
Site Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: From Manchester take the A6/A5004 to Buxton; from Buxton either: 1)follow the A6 to Bakewell and off there to Youlgreave or, 2)take the A515 (dir. Ashbourne) and connect with the one-track road to Youlgreave at Newhaven.
Additional Comments: re-cycled font: moved from Elton to Youlgreave in 1838
Font Notes:
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Noted in Paley (1844) as a baptismal font with " a very remarkable appendage". Described in Bagshaw (1846) as a font of ''curious workmanship''. A rounded basin or stoup projects a little below the level of the bowl rim and has a diameter of 27 cm and an interior depth of 16.5 cm; this small basin has no own drainage and, according to some of the sources (Bond, etc.), it was used to hold a removable basin upon which the baptism by affussion was carried out. A dragon or salamander peeps out from under the stoup. The main basin of the font has sparse foliated ornament and rests on a central stem and four attached shafts, the whole looking rather heavy. Threre is an interesting watercolour of the font and the salamander motif, done in 1886 by Mrs. Bagnall Oakeley, in the Sir Henry Dryden Collection, Northamptonshire. Details of the move of the font from Elton to Youlgreave can be found in Cox (1875-1877). Cox & Harvey (1907) and Bond (1908) make it as being originally from the chapelry of Elton [cf. **NB below]. On-site notes: a dragon and fleur-de-lis around the side of the bowl; a smaller salamander around the projected stoup; the smaller stoup has a diameter (inside) 24 x 20 cm and depth of 12 cm; there is no drainage in the smaller basin; base confirmed as described by Cox, Bond, etc. Tyrrell-Green (1928) makes the "subsidiary bowl" a place "to contain the holy oil or for the spoon to rest in" and makes reference to several French fonts with similar protrusions. **NB: in a footnote in Bond (ibid.): "This font has a curious history. It was originally in the neighbouring chapel-of-ease at Elton. This was wrecked by the fall of the spire, and its font was removed to his garden by the Vicar of Youlgreave in 1838. In 1848 a new base and new shafts were provided for it, and it was placed in Youlgreave Church. In 1870 the Elton people claimed it, but they were pacified by the present of a facsimile of it. -W.M." Illustrated in Needham (1944). Noted in Pevsner (1978) with suggested date ca. 1200, "brought from Elton church in 1838". [cf. Index entry for Warslow, Staffordshire, for the original font from Youlgreave]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 587957 5892690
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.176286, -1.683975
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 10′ 34.63″ N, 1° 41′ 2.31″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: double-font, cauldron-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: double basin, round (variant)
Drainage System: centre hole in basin & base
Drainage Notes: the main well is lead lined [the projection does not have a drain]
Rim Thickness: 7.5 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 56-57
Diameter (includes rim): 72 cm
Basin Depth: 35 cm
Basin Total Height: 55 cm
Height of Base: 42 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 97 cm
Font Height (with Plinth): 127 cm (plinth 30 cm)
Notes on Measurements: BSI
REFERENCES
- "Font at Youlgreave All Saints", NL20, Newsletter of the Ecclesiological Society, 1986, pp. 12; p. 12
- Anderson, M.D., The Imagery of British churches, London: John Murray, 1955, p. 194
- Bagshaw, Samuel, History, gazetteer and directory of Derbyshire, with the town of Burton-upon-Trent […], Sheffield: printed for the author by William Saxton […], 1846, p. 560
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 67, 183, 209, 211, 217, 225 and ill. on p. 64
- Bunting, Julie, "Take a a look at: fonts", 14 May 2001, The Peak Advertiser, 2001, pp. pl. & p. 7; p. 7
- Cox, John Charles, 1875-1877
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 171, 194, 195
- Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962, p. 74 fn2, 82
- Neeham, Albert, How to study an old church, London: Batsford, 1944, pl. X
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 29
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Derbyshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978, p. 28, 362
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 49, 69 and fig. 20