Over Haddon No. 1 / Nether Haddon

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view of font and cover

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view of font in context

Scene Description: FONT CNTXT illustration in André (1883: 209)

Image Source: illustration in André (1883: 209)

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view of church - plan

Scene Description: the position of the chapel in the context of Haddon Hall

Image Source: plan of the Hall [originally in Gotch (1909)]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: The entrance to Haddon Hall.

Image Source: digital photograph taken January 2007 by Wikityke [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Haddon_Hall_Bakewell_England.jpg]

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view of cover

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: inside the Chapel at Haddon Hall

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2008 by Erasmus T [http://www.flickr.com/photos/erasmus_t/2725536343/in/photostream/]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 01552HAD

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman

Church / Chapel Name: Private chapel of St. Anne, Haddon Hall

Font Location in Church: Inside the chapel, a part of Haddon Hall; against a pillar

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Anne

Site Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located off the B5055, 3 km SE of Bakewell; the chapel is in the lower court of the Hall

Font Notes: Click to view

Included in Davies (1811) description of the chapel at Haddon Hall: ''By the side of the altar is a niche and a basin for holy water: an ancient stone font is likewise preserved here.'' Noted in Kelly's Directory of 1881: "an ancient Norman font". Cox (1875-1877) notes a "plain circular Norman font" in this chapel, which "proves that in those days it possessed the rights of baptism." Noted and Illustrated in André (1883). Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period inside the private chapel. Noted in Pevsner (1978): "Font, Plain, circular, Norman, with Jacobean cover of double-curved scrolls meeting below a central knob." Bunting (2001) writes of one of several fonts "in the Peak District, where beautifully polished local stones were also used in later fonts as at Over Haddon [...]" [NB: according to Bunting (ibid.) the font at Haddon Hall is Norman, but there is "a later octagonal holy water stoup" there as well [cf. Davies'supra]; This is described in Cox (1887) with a suggested date of the 15th century for it]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Thomas Brincefield [www.brincefield.net/travel/uk/2005/haddon.html] for the photograph of this font]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 587115 5894757

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th century? -- Jacobean

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

André, J. Lewis, "Fonts and baptisms", 24, The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist, 1883, pp. 209-216; p. 209
Bunting, Julie, "Take a a look at: fonts", 14 May 2001, The Peak Advertiser, 2001, pp. pl. & p. 7; p. 7
Cox, John Charles, 1875-1877
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 195
Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, London: Kelly & Co., 1881, p. 1065
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Derbyshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978, p. 226