Edenham / Edeham

Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2014

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Results: 17 records

design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - double-lobed arches

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 September 2012 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3155707] [accessed 21 May 2019]

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design element - motifs - foliage - waterleaf

Scene Description: on the capitals of the arcade

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 23 September 2012 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3155707] [accessed 21 May 2019]

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design element - motifs - leaf

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 23 September 2012 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3155707] [accessed 21 May 2019]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bob Harvey, 2016

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 1 January 2016 by Bob Harvey [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/edited detail of a digital photograph taken 8 November 2014 by Bob Harvey [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4239834] [accessed 21 May 2019] [accessed 21 May 2019]

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view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "The market cross that once stood in the middle of Edenham village survives, having been removed to the churchyard after the stonework was endangered by passing lorries and now rests underneath one of the cedar trees near the main entrance to St Michael and All Angels."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rex Needle, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 October 2006 by Rex Needle [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4428635] [accessed 21 May 2019]

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view of church exterior - northwest end

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bob Harvey, 2014

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 8 November 2014 by Bob Harvey [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4237632] [accessed 21 May 2019]

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view of church exterior - west portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Michael's & All Angels: Church Door. This is the tower, or West, door used during ceremonials, weddings etc. For everyday access the South door in the porch is normally open".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bob Harvey, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 November 2014 by Bob Harvey [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4230710] [accessed 21 May 2019]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St Michael and All Angels: The church tower" [NB: the cedars are very ornamental but make the capture of the whole church building a challenge]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bob Harvey, 2014

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 1 January 2016 by Bob Harvey [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4237532] [accessed 21 May 2019]

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view of church interior - cross - fragment

Scene Description: Source caption: "A great treasure in St.Michael's church .... a 3ft section of an 8th century Anglo-Saxon cross shaft depicting the feet and body of a tall standing figure, thought to represent St.John."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2014

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 21 August 2014 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4626155] [accessed 21 May 2019]

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view of church interior - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bob Harvey, 2016

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 1 January 2016 by Bob Harvey [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4819834] [accessed 21 May 2019]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: The Norman portal that is partly visible here on the right [south] aisle, is "Re-set 12th century Norman doorway in St.Michaels church, rescued from the chapel at Scottlethorpe demolished in 1967" [author's caption for another photograph of the portal]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2014 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4623412] [accessed 21 May 2019]

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view of church interior - south aisle - southeast end

Scene Description: Source caption: "Anglo-Saxon stone carving. This roundel is situated at the east end of the south aisle of the church." Perhaps no the most felicitous choice of location for the electrical box?

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Hurn, 2008

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 25 August 2008 by Mark Hurn [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/937238] [accessed 21 May 2019]

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view of church interior - south aisle - west end - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Anglo-Saxon stone carving. One of two surviving roundels, this one is situated at the west end of the south aisle of the church."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Hurn, 2008

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 25 August 2008 by Mark Hurn [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/937233] [accessed 21 May 2019]

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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 September 2012 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3155707] [accessed 21 May 2019]

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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bob Harvey, 2016

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 1 January 2016 by Bob Harvey [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/edited detail of a digital photograph taken 8 November 2014 by Bob Harvey [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4239834] [accessed 21 May 2019] [accessed 21 May 2019]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St Michael and All Angels: The Font. The font is tucked away in the south west corner and dates from the 12th century".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bob Harvey, 2016

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 1 January 2016 by Bob Harvey [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/edited detail of a digital photograph taken 8 November 2014 by Bob Harvey [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4239834] [accessed 21 May 2019] [accessed 21 May 2019]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Unusual late 12th century font in St.Michael's church".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2014 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4626142] [accessed 21 May 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01565EDE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels
Church Location: Church Ln at Main St, Edenham, Bourne PE10 0LS, UK -- Tel.: +44 1778 591358
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A151, 5 km WNW of Bourne
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Beltisloe
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SW corner of the S aisle
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [re-cut?], Late Norman? / Transitional? [altered]
Cognate Fonts: Benniworth [cf. FontNotes]
There is an entry for Edenham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF0621/edenham/] [accessed 21 May 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Transitional period here, the basin raised on eight shafts of Purbeck marble. In Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. Large, drum-shaped, without a stem. Around, shafts carrying oddly two-lobed arches. Late C12?". Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2007), which notes that "the stone is dark tan/rust in colour, perhpaps from high iron content" [NB: some Lincs. fonts, including the one at Bennington, are made of local ironstone]. The CRSBI entry (ibid.) agrees with Pevsner's dating: "the waterleaf capitals suggest a late 12thc. date", but suggests that several clues (misallignment between bases and columns, ovoid shape of columns, smoothnes of finish on the inside, unusual measurements, etc.) "suggest a major intervention on this font at some point in time", either re-cutting or a "more recnt manufacture". The CRSBI (ibid.) adds: "This font is massive, comparable in h[eight] only to that of St Julian, Benniworth, which is 0.995 m". The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF0621321830] notes: "Parish church. C8, C12, C13, C15, early C16, 1808. [...] In the south aisle at the west end is an C8 relief carvedfoliate roundel resting on a contemporary projecting plain string course. This feature was cut by the insertion of the early C13 nave arcade and appears to be in situ. At the east end of the aisle at the same level is a similar roundel and string course suggesting that there was originally an entire scheme of external decoration to the Anglo Saxon nave. [...] At the west end of the nave is a C8 morticed base of an Anglo Saxon cross shaft, tapering rectangular shape. The sides are ornamented with tight interlace and on one front is a seated female figure beneath a panel containing interlacing foliage. [...] C12 circular font having engaged shafts with scrolled capitals to the sides, joined by paired arches, with foliage to the decoration of the upper parts."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.783521, -0.426831
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 47′ 0.68″ N, 0° 25′ 36.59″ W
UTM: 30U 673533 5851294

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, ironstone body? / marble (Purbeck) (shafts only?)
Font Shape: round (with columns)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (with columns)
Rim Thickness: 27 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 53.2 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 107 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 94 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/li/edenh/index.htm] [accessed 16 January 2007]]

REFERENCES

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2007-01-16 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989