Norton nr. Sheffield
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B01:
design element - architectural - arch-head - trefoiled
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B02:
animal - fabulous animal or monster - cockatrice?
Scene Description: Bond (1908) interprets it as a salamander, but it appears to have an avian body with a dragon's tail, perhaps a cockatrice, as Cox (1875) suggests [cf. Font notes]
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B03:
human figure - head
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B04:
design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: a plant? a Tree of Life?
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UB01:
design element - motifs - diaper
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UB02:
design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases
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view of font
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Image Source: engraving by J. S. Heaviside from a drawing by P. H. Delamotte, in Paley (1844)
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view of font
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view of font and cover
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view of font and cover
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01565NOR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Church Location: Norton Church Rd, Norton, Sheffield S8 8JQ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 114 274 9302
Country Name: England
Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 6 km SE of Sheffield
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, under the gallery
Date: ca. 1220?
Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Transitional / Early English
Cognate Fonts: Leicester All Saints'
Church Notes: "The church of Norton, which contains some Norman and some Early English portions, is said to have been founded by Robert Fitz Ranulph about 1176, by whom it was given to the Abbey of Beauchief" (Paley, 1844, unpaged)
Described and illustrated in Paley (1844) as a "very handsome" font of the Transitional period: octagonal basin mounted on a base of clustered colonnettes with dog-tooth motif on the central shaft, and raised on a square plinth. Paley (ibid.) identifies this as one of a few fonts on which there appears a salamander: "this creature typifies Baptism 'with the Holy Ghost and with Fire'" although, Paley adds, they are "usually represented on fonts as a lizard or a serpent-like animal." The entry in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports simply "a Norman font". Described in Cox (1875) as a handsome specimen of Early English art and located at the west end of the church, under the gallery: "The font stands upon four groups of pillars, three in each, the interstices being filled with the characteristic toothed ornament. The sides of the top are well carved with different devices. On the side facing the east is a very curious figure, somewhat resembling the cockatrice of fable. It is a bird with a reptile's tail, whilst the face has a human expression. The head is represented as looking upwards with a humiliated expression on its countenance […] We suppose it to represent Satan expressing his anguish at the rite of Christian baptism [footnoted: "Compare the fonts at Ashford and Youlgreave"]. The other sides are adorned with foliage and human heads.The date of this font we should place about the year 1220, when the Early English style was in its perfection.." Noted and illustrated in Armitage (1905), after Paley. Cox (1907) calls it a noteworthy example of Early English baptismal fonts. Bond (1908) reports salamanders or dragons on the basin sides, although the animal depicted in Paley's (1844) illustration of the basin side, inside a trefoil arch, is likely a dragon with a coiled tail. Noted in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a fine font of the Early English period with a clustered-column base..
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
53.3355,
-1.4615
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
53° 20′ 7.8″ N,
1° 27′ 41.4″ W
UTM: 30U 602444 5910697
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 70 cm
Basin Depth: 22.5 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 107.5 cm
Notes on Measurements: Paley (1844, unpaged)
REFERENCES
Armitage, Ella S., A key to English antiquities with special reference to the Sheffield and Rotherham disctrict, London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1905
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
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
Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928