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LB01: design element - patterns - diaper

Scene Description: on the central column of the base

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R01: design element - motifs - moulding

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view of church exterior - east view

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font, cover and canopy at the west end

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Image Source: Rickman & Parker (1881: 152)

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

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Image Source: 1778 ink-wash-on-paper drawing by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) in the British Library Online Gallery [www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/topdrawings/h/005add000015543u00029000.html] [accessed 29 October 2011]

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view of font canopy, baldachin - canopy

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view of font canopy, baldachin - canopy

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Scene Description: the 17th-century cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01780HEX

Church/Chapel: Priory and parish church of St. Andrew [earlier at St. Wilfrid's?]

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: Beaumont Street, Hexham, Northumberland, NE46 3NB

Country Name: England

Location: Northumberland, North East

Directions to Site: Located about 25 km W of Newcastle upon Tyne, just S of the A69

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Newcastle

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]

Date: ca. 1220?

Century and Period: 13th century [basin may be reused Anglo-Roman pillar?] [composite font?], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Peter Fairweather, of wwww.churchmousewebsite.co.uk, and to Anne Hinson, for their photographs of this font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is a 1778 ink-wash-on-paper drawing of this font by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) in the British Library collections [Shelfmark: Additional MS 15543 - Item number: f.29]. Illustrated in Rickman & Parker [woodcut by Orlando Jewitt] (1881). In Grimm's time the font was lacking the outer colonnettes of the base, which were there originally. Jewitt's illustration of ca. 1881 includes the colonnettes, which means the font was restored between those two dates. Described in Cox (1907) as a large font whose bowl is round and may have originally been a Roman stone re-used for the font; the base consists of a central square shaft with dog-tooth ornamentation and four smaller, plain round shafts. Bond (1908) describes it as a "huge font, the bowl of which rests on a thirteenth century base; the block forming the bowl may well have come from the Roman city now being disinterred at Corbridge." Tyrrell-Green (1928) lists it as font made from Roman dressed stone. Described in Pevsner (1957): "Big circular bowl perhaps of Roman origin, on a C13 foot with four shafts and dog-tooth decoration. Simple Jacobean-looking cover of ogee-shaped ribs. The tal canopy was made by a Belgian refugee in the First World War and incorporates some bits of C15 woodwork." The Hexham Abbey site [http://www.hexhamabbey.org.uk/project/histherit.hthttp://www.hexhamabbey.org.uk/project/histherit.htm] [accessed 4 August 2009] notes: "the superb font canopy was carved by a Belgian refugee who had fled the horrors of the First World War". [NB: the font is said to have originated at St. Wilfrid's abbey, the original abbey that was later replaced by the Augustinian priory of the 12th-13th century]. [cf. Index entry for St. John Lee for another font said to have ended up used as a swine's trough in Hexham]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.972, -2.103

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 58′ 19.2″ N, 2° 6′ 10.8″ W

UTM: 30U 557419 6092044

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: seven?

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 9 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 70 cm.

Diameter (includes rim): 88 cm.

Basin Depth: 33 cm.

Height of Basin Side: 38 cm.

Basin Total Height: 38 cm.

Height of Base: 56 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 94 cm.

Notes on Measurements: a/p Bond, Gibson & Russell

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th century?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

REFERENCES

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

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northumberland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1957

Rickman, Thomas, An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of Architecture in England, from the Conquest to the Reformation, with a Sketch of the Grecian and Roman Orders, An [7th ed. -- orig. published in 1817], Oxford and London: Parker and Co., 1881

Stocker, D.A., "Fons et origo: The Symbolic Death and Resurrection of English Font Stones", I (1997b), Church Archaeology, 1997, pp. 17-25; r["References"]

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928