Ashbourne / Ashborne / Esseburne
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Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
Results: 7 records
design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: at the upper and lower rims of the basin and especially on the colonnettes of the lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: photograph taken 4 July 1981 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Ward, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 6 April 2006 by John Ward
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Craig Thornber, 2006 [www.thornber.net]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: B&W photograph in Bond (1908)
Copyright Instructions: PD
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)
Copyright Instructions: PD
design element - architectural - arch-head - trefoiled - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 4 July 1981 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 4 July 1981 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01546ASH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: May 1241 [Paley]
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (mid?), Early English
Cognate Fonts: The font at nearby Bradley, in general terms
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Oswald
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Oswald of Nothumbria
Church Address: Mayfield Road, Ashbourne, Derbyshire DE6 1AY
Site Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located about 20 km NW of Derby
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Derby
Additional Comments: altered font (the present font: raised on a plinth at a later date) -- disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Ashbourne [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SK1846/ashbourne/] [accessed 3 March 2015]; it mentions a priest, a church and church lands in it, and the lords of this part appear as King William and a priest. Early English font the basin of which is ornamented with eight pointed trefoil arches and fleur-de-lis motifs in the spandrels. The base appears as eight "engaged" shafts [i.e., attached to the stem]. In Paley's time, ca. 1844, it rested on the floor "without any steps" (Paley, 1844) but, by Bond's time, ca. 1908, it had been raised on an octagonal plinth with a 'priest-stone' to the side (Bond,1908). Paley (1844) refers his precise dating, "8th of the Kalends of May, 1241" to a brass plate in the church which gives the date of the dedication of church and altar "in honour of St. Oswald, King and Martyr, [...] by Hugh de Pateshul, Bishop of Coventrye" and, since the font "may be fairly considered of the same date", the dating of the font "can be ascertained with accuracy". Noted in Cox (1875-1877) remarks that it is definitely a work of the of Early English period, "a good specimen of the style, and should be compared with that in the adjacent church of Bradley." In Tyrrell-Green (1928) as Early English with a clustered-columns base. Noted in Pevsner (1978): "Font. C13, with trefoil arches and small fleurs de lis standing between them." [NB: we have no information on the font from the Domesday-time church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Craig Thornber, of www.thornber.net, John Ward, of Oxfordshire Churches [http://homepage.mac.com/john.ward/oxfordshirechurches] and Timothy Marlow for their photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 584785 5874843
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.01641, -1.73612
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 0′ 59.08″ N, 1° 44′ 10.03″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: round-to-octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round-to-octagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 87.5 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm*
Notes on Measurements: Paley (1844, unpaged)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round, with knob finial/handle; appears modern
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 46, 209, 211, 217, 225 and ill. on 214
- Cox, John Charles, 1875-1877
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 195
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 12 et al.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Derbyshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978, p. 30, 61
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 90