Podington / Podintone / Potintone / Puddington
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh J Griffiths, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2011 by Hugh J Griffiths [http://odonata.eimagesite.net/s2/gst/run.cgi?action=images;prid=11922;retcmd=IL10;titletext=Church of St Mary the Virgin%2C Podington with St Michael and All Angels%2C Farndish%2C High Street%2C Podington NN29 7HS] [accessed 11 September 2015]
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view of font
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Image Source: illustration in Lysons (1806-1833)
Copyright Instructions: PD
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken by Hazel Gardiner, in the CSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/526/] [accessed 11 September 2015]
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design element - patterns - diamond or lozenge
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken by Hazel Gardiner, in the CSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/526/] [accessed 11 September 2015]
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design element - motifs - chevron - nested chevrons
Scene Description: on the northwest side of the font; the font cover is partially visible on the right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken by Hazel Gardiner, in the CSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/526/] [accessed 11 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01245POD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: High Street, Podington, Bedfordshire NN29 7HS
Site Location: Bedfordshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A6, 6 km SSW of Rushden, 5 km S of Irchester, near the county border with Northamptonshire
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Higham [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Willey
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for Podington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP9462/podington/] [accessed 111 September 2015], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. A font here is noted in Lysons (1806-1833) as a baptismal font decorated with nested-chevron pattern [NB: the image is Lysons may be misleading, as it only shows the pattern on the northwest side of the font]. Kelly's Bedfordshire Directory (1898) notes a Norman font inside the church. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Norman period. The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 3 1912) notes: "The church of Podington formed part of the original endowment of Canons Ashby Priory by Stephen la Leye in the reign of Henry II [1154-1189] [...] The south arcade of the nave dates from the beginning of the 13th century, and the north arcade is a few years later, but an earlier state of the building is shown by the angles of an aisleless nave still to be seen on the outside, which are in small irregular stones and may be of 12th-century date or even earlier. [...] The font, which is at the west end of the south aisle, is circular, and of 12th-century date, carved with zigzag ornament for nearly half its circumference, the rest being partly arcaded with round-headed arches and partly worked with a lozenge pattern." Pevsner (1968) writes: "The font is Norman, of drum-shape, decorated with close, big zigzags, and also with blank arches and lozenges." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2015). The font is tub-shaped, round with slightly splaying basin, the sides fully covered in a variety of patterns: nested chevron, crude arcading and lozenge or rhomboid. The lower base is round and there is square second base or plinth, both plain. The font cover consists of a wooden round platform on which are raised scolling ribs in metal arranged around a central pivot; modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library for access to the copy of Lysons’ Magna Britannia, and to Jim Ingram, of the Preservation Services, Robarts Library, for the digital imaging of Lysons’ illustrations.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 662326 5791987
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.2543, -0.6218
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 15′ 15.48″ N, 0° 37′ 18.48″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: tub-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead lined
Diameter (includes rim): 76 cm*
Basin Total Height: 36 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2015)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood and metal
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. 186
- Kelly, Kelly's Directory for Bedfordshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1898, [unknown]
- 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. 32
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968, p. 134