Chelmorton

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design element - motifs - tracery - varied

Scene Description: framing the panels in which the inscription characters appear

Image Source: digital photograph 28 July 2015 by Basher Eyre [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4624136] [accessed 24 February 2024]

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inscription

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Greaves (1879)

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Chelmorton, Derbyshire, St John the Baptist"

Image Source: edited detail of a 21 April 2018 by Dave Kelly [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5904083] [accessed 24 February 2024]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "St. John the Baptist's church, Chelmorton, interior. Looking east along the nave [...] dates partly back to the early 13th century [...] Of the 15th century are the altered clerestory above the south arcade, the porch, the octagonal font, and the low embattled stone screen with an ogee-arcade and openwork quatrefoils above."

Image Source: digital photograph 3 September 2008 by Jonathan Billinger [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/977599] [accessed 24 February 2024]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Inside St Hohn the Baptist, Chelmorton" -- showing the font and cover at the far [west] end

Image Source: digital photograph 28 July 2015 by Basher Eyre [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4624158] [accessed 24 February 2024]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Inside St Hohn the Baptist, Chelmorton"

Image Source: digital photograph 28 July 2015 by Basher Eyre [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4624136] [accessed 24 February 2024]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01210CHE

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist, Chelmorton

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: Main St, Chelmorton, Buxton SK17 9SN, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1629 812234

Country Name: England

Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A5270, S of the A6, in the municipality and 7-8 km ESE of Buxton

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Derby

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No entry found for Chelmorton in the Domesday survey. Cox (1875-1877) notes: "The octagon font, now placed at the west end of the church near the tower archway, is a remarkable example of late Perpendicular. Its height including the base, is four feet three inches, and its diameter across the top is two feet." Cox (ibid.) goes on to pint out the what makes the font remarkable is not its proportions, "but for the inscription or sculpture, consisting of separate letters or designs on each of its eight faces. This inscription has ffor a long time puzzled the most astute antiquaries, owing to the sculptor having carved a Greek invocation in Old English letters. The first of these characters we take to be an initial cross, followed by the letters s, eb, s, e, m, n, o, that is σεβ σεμυω, or 'Reverence the Reverend One'." The inscription on this font is written at length in Greaves (1879) with an illustration [cf. ImagesArea]. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as an octogonal 15th-century baptismal font which bears a small letter or design on each face; these have been interpreted as symbols, acronyms, etc., to no-one's satisfaction so far; a noteworthy example of the Perpendicular period. Noted in Pevsner (1978): "Font Octagonal, Perp[endicular]." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK1155570262] notes: "Church. C13, C14, restored 1869 [...] Octagonal Perp font with moulded base, and cusped decorated panels over."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.2293, -1.82837

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 13′ 45.48″ N, 1° 49′ 42.13″ W

UTM: 30U 578210 5898419

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Greek [in Old English lettering]

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: Each of 8 sides

Inscription Text: [s, eb, s, e, m, n, o, that is σεβ σεμυω, or 'Reverence the Reverend One']

Inscription Source: Cox (1875-1877); Cox & Harvey (1907)

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, 1875-1877

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

Greaves, C.S., "Inscription on the Font at Chelmorton", 1 (1879), Derbishire Archaeological Journal, 1879, pp. 1-14; r["References"]

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Derbyshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978