Tydd St. Giles
Results: 12 records
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "The six sided 15th C font at St Giles"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Stafford, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 February 2007 by Chris Stafford [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/344200] [accessed 27 April 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
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."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 August 2012 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3083929] [accessed 27 April 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
design element - motifs - tracery - varied
Scene Description: on the sides of the stem
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Stafford, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 February 2007 by Chris Stafford [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/344200] [accessed 27 April 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Scene Description: on the lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Stafford, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 February 2007 by Chris Stafford [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/344200] [accessed 27 April 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
angel - in a quatrefoil - pointed quatrefoil
Scene Description: on the northeast side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Vigar, 2015
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]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
human figure - male - Green Man or woodwoose - head
Scene Description: on the west panels of the basin [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Vigar, 2015
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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animal - fabulous animal or monster - Green Beast
Scene Description: on the southeast panel; lion-like, with some human traits [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Vigar, 2015
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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view of basin - detail
human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - head
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes for details]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n., s.d.]
Image Source: unknown/not recorded web source
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8
Scene Description: one on each of the panels of the octagonal basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n., s.d.]
Image Source: unknown/not recorded web source
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symbol - shield - coat of arms - See of Ely
Scene Description: as in the other basin sides, the foliage and pointed quatrefoil also present here
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n., s.d.]
Image Source: unknown/not recorded web source
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01423TYD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: Dullingham, Isleham and Leverington
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Giles
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Church Address: Church Lane, Tydd St Giles, Cambridgeshire PE13 5LA
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B1165, 10 km NW of Wisbech
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Wisbech
Additional Comments: request sent to do0752@greenmaneastanglia.co.uk for two close-up shots -- disappeared font? (the one from the 13thC church here)
Font Notes:
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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)
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christ Stafford and to Tina Manthorpe [aka Tina Negus for their photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 304768 5845865
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.727377, 0.108727
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 43′ 38.56″ N, 0° 6′ 31.42″ E
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-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 188
- 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. II: p. 60
- Negus, Tina, "Medieval Foliate Heads: a Photographic Study of Green Men and Green Beasts in Britain", August 2003, Folklore, 2003