Tydd St. Giles

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angel - in a quatrefoil - pointed quatrefoil

Scene Description: on the northeast side of the basin

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 19 February 2015 by John Vigar [www.flickr.com/photos/41621108@N00/16598908261/in/photostream/] [accessed 27 April 2016]

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - Green Beast

Scene Description: on the southeast panel; lion-like, with some human traits [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 19 February 2015 by John Vigar [www.flickr.com/photos/41621108@N00/16600081295] [accessed 27 April 2016]

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coat of arms - See of Ely

Scene Description: as in the other basin sides, the foliage and pointed quatrefoil also present here

Image Source: unknown/not recorded web source

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Scene Description: on the lower base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 February 2007 by Chris Stafford [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/344200] [accessed 27 April 2016]

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8

Scene Description: one on each of the panels of the octagonal basin

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design element - motifs - tracery - varied

Scene Description: on the sides of the stem

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 February 2007 by Chris Stafford [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/344200] [accessed 27 April 2016]

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human figure - male - Green Man or woodwoose - head

Scene Description: on the west panels of the basin [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 19 February 2015 by John Vigar [www.flickr.com/photos/41621108@N00/16574087856/in/photostream/] [accessed 27 April 2016]

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human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - head

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes for details]

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symbol - shield - the instruments of the Passion - cross, lance, sponge, two scourges

Scene Description: as in the other basin sides, the foliage and pointed quatrefoil also present here [unlicensed photograph by John Vigar at www.flickr.com/photos/41621108@N00/16598877461/in/photostream/ [accessed 27 April 2016]

view of basin - detail

view of church exterior

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church and detached tower at Tydd St.Giles. What remains is the nave of a late 12th century church with 14th century aisles and a 13th & 15th century tower. The chancel was destroyed in a gale in 1741, and although rebuilt, was demolished and never replaced during the restoration by Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1868 at the direction of his brother Canon John Scott who was the Rector."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 August 2012 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3083929] [accessed 27 April 2016]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "The six sided 15th C font at St Giles"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 February 2007 by Chris Stafford [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/344200] [accessed 27 April 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01423TYD

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Giles

Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]

Church Location: Church Lane, Tydd St Giles, Cambridgeshire PE13 5LA

Country Name: England

Location: Cambridgeshire, East

Directions to Site: Located on the B1165, 10 km NW of Wisbech

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely

Historical Region: Hundred of Wisbech

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Cognate Fonts: Dullingham, Isleham and Leverington

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christ Stafford and to Tina Manthorpe [aka Tina Negus for their photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No individual entry fount for Tydd St Giles in the Domesday survey. Lysons (1806-1833) include this as one in a group of fonts "in the later Gothic style, being octagonal, and richly ornamented with tracery" [the fonts mentioned by Lysons in this group are: Dullingham, Iselham [i.e., Isleham], Tydd St. Giles and Leverington] [NB: this font is actually hexagonal]. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period, a noteworthy example. The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 4, 2002) notes: "The church [...] is of early 13th-century origin [...] The font has a hexagonal bowl with the arms of Ely, the emblems of the Passion, the shield of St. George, and angel and two grotesque faces, representing sloth and gluttony, gowing out of leaves. The shaft is traceried and the font stands on two stone risers." Negus (2003) describes and illustrates two panels of the octagonal font that "show Green Men. Facing west is a bold design of a fourfold leaf with a tiny, barely noticeable face in the centre. The veins of the leaves appear from under the nose as moustaches and from the brows. The other Green Man, or perhaps Beast, faces to the southeast. He resembles a lion with a mane, lolling tonge and furrowed brow, but his nose and brows are much more human: he occupies a fanciful world, being half man, half animal. From his ears and mouth spring large leaves, which fill the spaces of the quatrefoil design." Not mentioned in Pevsner (1970)

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.727377, 0.108727

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 43′ 38.56″ N, 0° 6′ 31.42″ E

UTM: 31U 304768 5845865

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat; appears modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2005-03-07 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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

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

Negus, Tina, "Medieval Foliate Heads: a Photographic Study of Green Men and Green Beasts in Britain", August 2003, Folklore, 2003