Fotheringhay / Fodringeia

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Results: 31 records

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B01: design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose - in an octafoil

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B02: design element - motifs - floral or foliage - in a quatrefoil - cusped quatrefoil

Scene Description: in the left panel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B03: design element - motifs - floral or foliage - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - in a square

Scene Description: in the centre panel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B04: design element - motifs - floral or foliage - in a quatrefoil - cusped quatrefoil

Scene Description: in the right panel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B05: design element - motifs - floral or foliage - in an octafoil

Scene Description: in the centre panel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B06: design element - motifs - floral or foliage - in a quatrefoil - cusped quatrefoil

Scene Description: in the right panel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B07: design element - motifs - floral or foliage - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - in a square

Scene Description: in the centre panel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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B08: design element - motifs - floral or foliage - in a quatrefoil - cusped quatrefoil

Scene Description: in the right panel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 14 January 2005 by Janice Tostevin

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BU01: animal - mammal - head

Scene Description: one of four; some are idenfied as lion heads in some sources

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BU02: design element - motifs - floral or foliage

Scene Description: clusters, alternating with lion heads

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BU03: animal - mammal - head

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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BU04: design element - motifs - floral or foliage

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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BU05: animal - mammal - head

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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BU06: design element - motifs - floral or foliage

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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BU07: animal - mammal - head

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BU08: design element - motifs - floral or foliage

LB01: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 14 January 2005 by Janice Tostevin

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R01: design element - motifs - moulding

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: engraving in Parker (1841)

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font at the back

Image Source: engraving in Parker (1841)

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view of font

Scene Description: although hardly visible in the drawing, there is a knob or finial on the upper surface of the basin top, indicative of a plain flat cover, not the present cover

Image Source: detail of an engraving on a drawing by Bonney (1821)

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view of font

Image Source: engraving in Parker (1841)

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 January 2005 by Janice Tostevin

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the second misericord of the cover is visible here -

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2007 by Richard Croft [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/567508] [accessed 3 April 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced here under the conditions of the Creative Commons Licence [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/] [accessed 3 April 2009]

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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view of font cover

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 14 January 2005 by Janice Tostevin

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view of font cover

Scene Description: the second misericord that has been re-cycled in the cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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view of font cover

Scene Description: one of the misericords re-c ycled in the cover

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view of font cover - detail

Scene Description: one of the two re-cycled misericords; this one shows a jester's hatted head; note the additional bell hooked to his nose

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 January 2005 by Janice Tostevin

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view of font cover - detail

Scene Description: head of a hatted male on the second misericord that now forms part of the font cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01773FOT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary and All Saints

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & All Saints

Church Location: Fotheringhay Rd, Fotheringhay, Peterborough PE8 5HZ, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (NW) the A605, W of the A1, 6 km NNE of Oundle, 10-12 km W of Peterborough

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough

Historical Region: Hundred of Willybrook

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice Tostevin for her photographs of this font and cover. We are also grateful to Dominic Strange, of www.misericords.co.uk, for the information on this font cover

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Fotheringhay [variant spelling] in the Domesday surbey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TL0693/fotheringhay/] [accessed 14 December 2020]; it mentions a priest but not a church in it, though there must have been one there. Described and illustrated in Bonney (1821): "Beneath the lofty arch at the west end of the nave is the font. The basin is octagonal, adorned with foliage and grotesque heads, within gothic compartments; supported on a short octagonal pillar of similar architecture, and elevated upon two steps. On the west side of it is a stone pedestal, designed for the station of the priest when he performed the office of baptism." [NB: the engraving of the font in Bonney shows a knob finial or handle just protruding from the top of the basin, therefore the present font cover must have been put together at a later date]. Reported in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 as "a very fine font". Bede (1886) reproduces Bonney's description almost verbatim, even the detail of "within gothic compartments", which is actually not quite correct as some of theese motifs are on the underbowl and not inscribed, as are the motifs on the basin sides]. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Noted in Mee (1945): "15th century stone font, with bold heads of lions and squares of foliage forming the base of the bowl, and a cover made of two medieval misereres, with a jester's head among other figures." In Betjeman (1958) as a noteworthy Perpendicular font. The font cover, as indicated in Mee [supra], consists of a flat octagonal platform on which two old misericords have been mounted in a double-lectern arrrangement; one of the misericords has the head of a court jester, with bells in his hat and one hanging from his nose; the other misericord, showing considerable damage, has on the left the bust of a woman wearing a cowl or wimple, on the right a smaller man's head wearing a hat [NB: the pair of misericords are believed to have belonged to the choir-stalls of the collegiate church at Fotherignhay; three others are reported in the Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 3, 1930) at Benefield St. Mary's, having been "purchased at Tansor in 1899". This cover must have been made up after 1821 -- cf. supra]. The font is noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Octagonal, Perp[endicular]. Panelled stem, bowl with quatrefoils and big leaf motifs alternating with animal faces on the underside." The cover is noted in www.misericords.co.uk: "Provenance: returned from Great Gidding Church in 1928. Part of the original set in the Abbey, the furnishings of which were dispersed of to various churches."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.52591, -0.43797

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 31′ 33.28″ N, 0° 26′ 16.69″ W

UTM: 30U 673801 5822619

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: [composite of recycled materials]

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-04-03 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Bede, Cuthbert, Fotheringhay and Mary, Queen of Scots. Being an account, historical and descriptive, of Fotheringhay Castle, the last prison of Mary, Queen of Scots, and the scene of her trial and execution, London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1886

Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958

Bonney, H.K., Historic notices in reference to Fotheringhay, London; Edinburgh: Printed for and by T. Bell; and for Messrs. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown [...]; and Archibald Constable, and Co., 1821

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

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

Parker, John Henry, Some remarks upon the Church of Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire, read at a meeting of the Oxford Society for Promoting the Study of Gothic Architecture, February 25, 1841; with the original contract for building it, extracted from Dugdale's Monasticon, Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1841

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