Chipping No. 1
Results: 8 records
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tom Richardson, 2011
Image Source: digital photogrraph 10 March 2011 by Tom Richardson [ww.geograph.org.uk/photo/2302490] [accessed 18 March 2019]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the lower base is said to be an upturned capital
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symbol - shield - coat of arms - unidentified
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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inscription
Scene Description: [cf. Inscription area & Font notes]
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view of church interior - detail
Scene Description: detail of the nave pillars
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design element - motifs - fluting
Scene Description: on the stem [cf. Font notes]
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symbol - unidentified
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01539CHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Object Details: capital?
Font Date: ca. 1520?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century[composite font?], Late Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: The font at Stydd / Stidd chapel, in the same county
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Bartholomew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Bartholomew
Church Address: Garstang Rd, Preston PR3 2QH, UK
Site Location: Lancashire, North West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located S of Bowland Forest, 10-12 km W of Clitheroe, about the same distance NNW of Blackburn, 10 km E of the M6
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Blackburn
Historical Region: Hundred of Blackburn
Additional Comments: composite font / altered font: lower base may be upturned capital
Font Notes:
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No individual entry found for this Chipping in the Domesday survey. Moule (1837) writes: "The font, supposed to have been very ancient, is comparatively modern, of about the date of Henry VIII" [i.e., 1509-1547]. Butterworth (1841) reports "a curious inscription, on the font". Noted in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848: "polygonal font, of ancient date, with a carved inscription". Raines 1845- annotation of the entry for Chipping in Gastrell's 1717 'Notitia cestiensis', reads: "There is a curious polygonal Font in the Church with some characters akin to Runic upon it, an account of which Whitaker states was inserted in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1772, p. 588; but no such account will be found there.-- History of Whattey, p. 465". Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy example of 15th-century baptismal font; it bears the initial letters of the Latin version of the Angelic Salutation [AMGP? -- Ave Maria Gratia Plena Dominus Tecum] Noted in Pevsner (1969): "Font. Octagonal, with concave sides and very primitively carved motifs. Probably Late Perp[endicular]." Hartwell & Pevsner (2009) suggest the font at Stydd as cognate. Described and illustrated in the Lancashire Churches web site [www.lancashirechurches.co.uk/Chipping.htm]: "The font of 1520 is [...] rustic in its ornamentation. Its base is almost certainly an upturned capital of the type found on the north arcade, whilst the octagonal column and top appear to be original. It is said to be the gift of Bradley Hall, and the family initials are on the shields. Other shields have designs that are unreadable now, but elsewhere the instruments of the Passion can be seen -the scourge, nails, hammer and pincers. Despite the crudity of the carving the font has an endearing provincial quality. Nonetheless it has the overall feel of the late Perpendicular period." [cf. Index entry for Chipping No. 2 for another object listed for this church]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 527843 5970777
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.8847, -2.5764
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 53′ 4.92″ N, 2° 34′ 35.04″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Text: [Initials of the Latin version of the Angelic Salutation to Mary [AMGP? i.e., Ave Maria Gratia Plena Dominus Tecum -- or intials of the donor family?]]
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Butterworth, Edwin, A statistical sketch of the County Palatine of Lancaster, Manchester: Longman & Co.; Banks & Co., 1841, p. 22
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 180, 205
- Gastrell, Francis, Right Rev., Notitia cestriensis, of historcal notices of the Diocese of Chester [...], Cheshire: Printed for the Chetham Society, 1845-1850, vol. 2, pt. 3: 402fn
- Hartwell, Clare, Lancashire North, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2009, p. 210, 660
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ec.uk/report.asp?compid=50875] [accessed 24 January 2007]
- Moule, Thomas, The English counties delineated; or, A topographical description of England [...], London: George Virtue, 1837 [vol. 2], vol. 2: 338
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lancashire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1969, vol. 2: 93