Tiffield
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Results: 5 records
B01:
design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - beaded-tape - inverted
Scene Description: each arch contains a large foliage motif resembling a palmette; the arch itself is done in beaded tape
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Image Source: detail of a engraving by J.T. Irvine ca. 1862 (?) [now in the Sir Henry Dryden Collection (ref. no.: DR/25/272/001) [cf. VADS entry at http://vads.ahds.ac.uk] [accessed 15 April 2009]
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BS01:
design element - motifs - floral or foliage
Scene Description: one in each of the spandrels formed by the arches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Northamptonshire Libraries and Information Service , 2008
Image Source: detail of a engraving by J.T. Irvine ca. 1862 (?) [now in the Sir Henry Dryden Collection (ref. no.: DR/25/272/001) [cf. VADS entry at http://vads.ahds.ac.uk] [accessed 15 April 2009]
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view of basin - north side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ron Baxter & CRSBI, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph in the CRSBI [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-nh-tiffi.html] [accessed 15 April 2009]
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view of font - northeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ron Baxter & CRSBI, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph in the CRSBI [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-nh-tiffi.html] [accessed 15 April 2009]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Northamptonshire Libraries and Information Service , 2008
Image Source: engraving by J.T. Irvine ca. 1862 (?) [now in the Sir Henry Dryden Collection (ref. no.: DR/25/272/001) [cf. VADS entry at http://vads.ahds.ac.uk] [accessed 15 April 2009]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01779TIF
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Tiffield, Towcester NN12 8AB, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 4-5 km NNE of Towcester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century / 15th century, Norman? / Perpendicular?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Workshop from St Peter's, Northampton
Cognate Fonts: Paulerspury [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: church ca, 1200
Engraving of this font made in 1862 by J.T. Irvine, now in the the Sir Henry Dryden Collection (ref. no.: DR/25/272/001), Northamptonshire. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. [NB: are there two fonts here?] Maguire (1970) includes this font in a group the decoration of which appear to be related to that on a fragment from St Andrew's Priory. Pevsner & Cherry (1973) relate the "leaf capitals inside the lunettes and in the spandrels below" on the font at Paulerspury to the decoration on the font at Tiffield, which is described as: "Circular, Norman, with upside-down lunettes beaded along the rim and filled with leaves. Leaves also in the spandrels below. The same design as at Paulerspury." The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (2008) notes this as a font "of the lively workshop from St Peter's, Northampton, active in the 1140s and '50s. Other fonts by these sculptors are found in the county at Green's Norton, Paulerspury, Dodford, Tiffield and Weedon Lois, and nearby at Maids' Moreton (Bucks)." The CRSBI points out an odd boat-shaped (?) motif below one of the inverted arches of the basin side; this arch was rendered much smaller than the rest, and so was the foliated motif in the spandrel, to accommodate the off motif; it is a somewhat incongruent decoration, as the other motifs are of the standard foliated type often found on in Romanesque spandrels.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.159061,
-0.978613
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 9′ 32.62″ N,
0° 58′ 43.01″ W
UTM: 30U 638270 5780656
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Rim Thickness: 7.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 49 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 64 cm*
Basin Total Height: 38 cm*
Height of Base: 60 cm [calculated]
Font Height (less Plinth): 98 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [measurements in CRSBI]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th - 18th century?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: the old font cover has a round flat platform with four thick vertical scrolls around a centre pivot
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: 2006-10-23 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"]
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973
