Flitwick / Flicteuuiche / Flietewicke / Flythewick
Image copyright © Michael Bradley, Flitwick Parish, 2007
Permission received (e-mail of 5 November 2007)
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Bradley, Flitwick Parish, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph in Flitwick Parish [www.flitwickchurch.org.uk/index.htm] [accessed 4 November 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 5 November 2007)
design element - patterns - fluted
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Bradley, Flitwick Parish, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph in Flitwick Parish [www.flitwickchurch.org.uk/index.htm] [accessed 4 November 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 5 November 2007)
view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Bradley, Flitwick Parish, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph in Flitwick Parish [www.flitwickchurch.org.uk/index.htm] [accessed 4 November 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 5 November 2007)
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Bradley, Flitwick Parish, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph in Flitwick Parish [www.flitwickchurch.org.uk/index.htm] [accessed 4 November 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 5 November 2007)
view of basin
Scene Description: the basin as it appeared before the most recent painting -- a baptism in the old font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Bradley, Flitwick Parish, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph in Flitwick Parish [www.flitwickchurch.org.uk/index.htm] [accessed 4 November 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 5 November 2007)
view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Peter and St Paul, Flitwick. The nave is C12, the south aisle C13 and the tower C14. The roof was replaced in C19 and a lot of the windows were reworked at this time. Inside, the font is C12 and there is a C16 pulpit."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bikeboy, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2015 by Bikeboy [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4545927] [accessed 17 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gordon Cragg, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken June 2008 by Gordon Cragg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1142870] [accessed 17 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gordon Cragg, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken June 2008 by Gordon Cragg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1142862] [accessed 17 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font cover
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Bradley, Flitwick Parish, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph in Flitwick Parish [www.flitwickchurch.org.uk/index.htm] [accessed 4 November 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 5 November 2007)
view of base
Scene Description: the modern base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Bradley, Flitwick Parish, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph in Flitwick Parish [www.flitwickchurch.org.uk/index.htm] [accessed 4 November 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 5 November 2007)
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the font as it appeared in 1996
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2015
Image Source: photograph taken by Hazel Gardiner, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/691/] [accessed 17 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE]
view of font in context
Scene Description: the font as it appeared in 2002
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2015
Image Source: photograph taken by Hazel Gardiner, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/691/] [accessed 17 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE]
view of basin
Scene Description: note the repaired area on the upper rim and side, towards the right; the font as it appeared in 1996
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2015
Image Source: photograph taken by Hazel Gardiner, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/691/] [accessed 17 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE]
view of basin - upper view
Scene Description: the font as it appeared in 1996
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2015
Image Source: photograph taken by Hazel Gardiner, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/691/] [accessed 17 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE]
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01240FLI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul with St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, by the S doorway [moved from an earlier position against the pillar close to the door] [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul with St. Andrew
Church Address: Church Road, Flitwick, Bedfordshire, MK45 1AE
Site Location: Bedfordshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A5120, 16 km S of Bedford, 16 km N of Luton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Redbornestoke
Additional Comments: altered font / composite font / [permission req'd from parish web site (email of 4 Nov. 2007] -- received] / painted font: two photographs of this font show that the basin was painted recently [cf. Parish web site Flitwick Parish web site [www.flitwickchurch.org.uk/index.htm] [accessed 4 November 2007]]
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Flitwick [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL0334/flitwick/] [accessed 17 September 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font here is noted in Lysons (1806-1833) as one of a group of circular fonts: “Flitwick has the upper part scalloped". Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as "a good Norman font". The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The church of Flitwick was bestowed on Dunstable Priory by Philip de Sanvill before the reign of Richard I [i.e., before 1189] [...] The font, which is near the west end of the south aisle, has a round fluted bowl of late 12th-century date resting on a modern base". The Flitwick Parish web site [www.flitwickchurch.org.uk/index.htm] [accessed 4 November 2007] page informs: "On the left as you enter by the south door stands the Font [....] Originally our font was fixed against the pillar close to the south door. The circular fluted bowl of the font is Norman and dates back to the twelfth century [...] The circular shaft and base which support it are nineteenth century and were added when the font was moved to its present position [...] The lid of our font was for many years securely fastened, but was opened and restored to its proper use one Whitsunday during the 1850’s. During the time when the font was sealed a small vessel or basin was placed on the lid. Our basin had a small round wooden stand, the top of which is still preserved. On one side is printed round the circumference in Greek capitals the palindrome "ΝΙΨΟΝ ΑΝΟΜΗΜΑ ΜΗ ΜΟΝΑΝ ΟΨΙΝ" a free translation of which is ‘Wash the sin not only the face.’ Lines such as these are known as Devil’s Verses". Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2015) :"Round, with a fluted bowl and with a sunken roll on the rim. The base and plinth are modern. The bowl, which has been painted red with blue details, has a number of cement repairs", and dates the font and the re-set north doorway to the late 12th century.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Revd. Michael Bradley, of Flitwick Parish [www.flitwickchurch.org.uk], for his photographs of this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 671474 5763651
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.997, -0.5022
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 59′ 49.2″ N, 0° 30′ 7.92″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Diameter (inside rim): 37 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 81 cm*
Basin Total Height: 34 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2015)
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Greek
Inscription Location: on a small wooden stand used for the basin
Inscription Text: "ΝΙΨΟΝ ΑΝΟΜΗΜΑ ΜΗ ΜΟΝΑΝ ΟΨΙΝ"
Inscription Notes: "NIYON ANOMHMA MH MONAN OYIN a free translation of which is ‘Wash the sin not only the face.’" [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: [cf. FontNotes]
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 185, 186
- Lysons, Daniel, Magna Britannia, being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain, London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822, vol. I: p. 31