Crick / Crec

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design element - motifs - ball-in-socket

Scene Description: all around the basin sides, in three rows

Image Source: detail of digital photograph taken 24 January 2009 by Walwyn [http://www.flickr.com/photos/overton_cat/] [accessed 25 March 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission + Creative Commons Licence [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/] [accessed 25 March 2009]

design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2

Scene Description: notice the damage to the lower side of the basin

Image Source: photograph taken 4 April 1983 by Tim Marlow

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design element - motifs - zigzag

Image Source: photograph taken 4 April 1983 by Tim Marlow

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human figure - grotesque or fantastic - seated - 3

Scene Description: three atlante-like grotesque figures that support the basin on their backs

Image Source: detail of digital photograph taken 24 January 2009 by Walwyn [http://www.flickr.com/photos/overton_cat/] [accessed 25 March 2009]

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view of base - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 January 2009 by Walwyn [http://www.flickr.com/photos/overton_cat/] [accessed 25 March 2009]

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view of base - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 January 2009 by Walwyn [http://www.flickr.com/photos/overton_cat/] [accessed 25 March 2009]

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view of base - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 January 2009 by Walwyn [http://www.flickr.com/photos/overton_cat/] [accessed 25 March 2009]

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view of base - east side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 January 2009 by Walwyn [http://www.flickr.com/photos/overton_cat/] [accessed 25 March 2009]

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view of base - northwest side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 January 2009 by Walwyn [http://www.flickr.com/photos/overton_cat/] [accessed 25 March 2009]

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view of base - southwest side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 January 2009 by Walwyn [http://www.flickr.com/photos/overton_cat/] [accessed 25 March 2009]

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view of basin - upper view

Image Source: photograph in the CRSBI (2014) [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1089/] [accessed 2 November 2014]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 August 2013 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3608063] [accessed 2 November 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "St.Margaret of Antioch's nave. View east with 13th & 14th century five bay arcades."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2013 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3737731] [accessed 2 November 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "View west from the chancel to the nave in St.Margaret's church, with the roofline of the 14th century nave (before the addition of the 15th century clerestorey) evident above the tower arch."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2013 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3737760] [accessed 2 November 2014]

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view of font

Image Source: engraving of a drawing by Orlando Jewitt, in The Church Builder (issue no. 47 January 1873: 20)

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view of font

Image Source: detail of digital photograph taken 24 January 2009 by Walwyn [http://www.flickr.com/photos/overton_cat/] [accessed 25 March 2009]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: showing only the octagonal flat cover

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Bond (1908)

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 January 2009 by Walwyn [http://www.flickr.com/photos/overton_cat/] [accessed 25 March 2009]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Romanesque sandstone font c1160-70 in St.Mary's church, the base formed by three crouching figures supporting a circular bowl with bead decoration."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2013 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3737772] [accessed 2 November 2014]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: photograph taken 4 April 1983 by Tim Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

view of font cover

Image Source: detail of digital photograph taken 24 January 2009 by Walwyn [http://www.flickr.com/photos/overton_cat/] [accessed 25 March 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission + Creative Commons Licence [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/] [accessed 25 March 2009]

INFORMATION

FontID: 01739CRI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret of Antioch

Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]

Church Location: Church St., Crick, Northamptonshire, NN6 7TP

Country Name: England

Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located a few kms NW of Northampton; take exit 18 off (E) the M1, A428; Crick is just past the exit

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough

Historical Region: Hundred of Guilsborough

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, S aisle

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Walwyn, of Midland Churches [http://professor-moriarty.com/moriarties/midland_churches], and to Tim Marlow, for their photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Crck [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP5872/crick/] [accessed 2 November 2014], and it reports a priest in it, but does not mention a church even though there probably was one there. This font is described and illustrated in Parker (1849): "The font is a cylindrical bowl, resting on three monsters, and adorned with hemispherical figures, which appear, from one or two instances in which the design has been carried out, to have been intended to be cut into ball-flowers. It is lined with lead, and has an open water-drain." In Whellan (1849), after Parker. Described, with an engraving of a drawing by Orlando Jewitt, in The Church Builder (issue no. 47 January 1873: 20): "The font from Crick St Margaret, Northamptonshire, is a curious play of the artist's fancy. The squat figures supporting it have probably no special symbolism, they are an indulgence in the taste for grotesque humour which we find so frequently breaking out in the little by-places of mediaeval work. The bosses which ornament the bowl, again, are the freak of an original mind. The dog-tooth at the margin is the only bit of conventionalism, and enables us to assign the work to the 13th century." Described and illustrated in Bond (1908). Noted in Mee (1945): "Three monsters bear the bowl of the low Norman font on their shoulders, and the font has a cover with a beautiful carved finial." Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Circular, Norman. The foot is three kneeling figures, an Italian motif. On the bowl vertical chains of big beads, three or four in a chain, and top border of zigzag." Baptismal font of the Late Norman or Transitional period; bucket-shaped, round basin has thin band with zig-zag motif at the rim; side covered in three rows of ball-in-socket motif; the base is made up of three atlante figures, sitting hunched and grotesque figures (monsters?) that support the basin on their backs; stand on a later lowerbase piece. Pyramidal polygonal font cover with trefoiled open-work. The SCRAN databse [www.scran.ac.uk] lists a painting of this font [w/ ref. to the Northamptonshire Libraries and Information Service (4XL RAPID)]. Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2014): "an important 12thc. Font, unusual in being supported by atlantes"; it further suggests an Italian inspiration for this base [cf. Pevsner & Cherry supra] and "if so, a date in the 1130s or '40s would seem reasonable for the Crick font." Thurlby (2006) remarks that the motifs on the sides of this font appears "in imitation of gem settings".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.34746, -1.142634

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 20′ 50.86″ N, 1° 8′ 33.48″ W

UTM: 30U 626514 5801309

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: five?

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead lining

Rim Thickness: 11.5 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 54 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 77 cm*

Basin Total Height: 38 cm*

Height of Base: 38 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 80 cm [approx. -- calculated]

Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2014)

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Notes: two wooden covers: one pyramidal polygonal with trefoil open-work; another, plain octagonal (?) of later date.

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

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: 2006-12-25 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Maguire, Henry P., "A twelfth century workshop in Northampton", 9, 1 (1970), Gesta, 1970, pp. 11-25; r["References"]

Mee, Arthur, The King's England: Northamptonshire, country of spires and stately homes, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1945

Parker, John Henry, Architectural notices of the churches of the Archdeaconry of Northampton: Deaneries of Higham Ferrers and Haddon, London; Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1849

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973

Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006

Whellan, William, History, gazetteer, and directory of Northamptonshire, comprising a general survey of the county, and a history of the Diocese of Peterborough: with separate [...], London: Whittaker & Co., Ave Maria Lane, 1849