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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches
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Image Source: J. Standish, ca. 1908? [in www.nottshistory.org.uk/articles]
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BBU01: design element - motifs - floral
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Image Source: J. Standish, ca. 1908? [in www.nottshistory.org.uk/articles]
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BBU02: design element - motifs - foliage
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Image Source: J. Standish, ca. 1908? [in www.nottshistory.org.uk/articles]
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BBU03: design element - motifs - rope moulding - braided with pearl- or bead-string
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Image Source: J. Standish, ca. 1908? [in www.nottshistory.org.uk/articles]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tina Mathorpe, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2008 by Tina Manthorpe [http://www.flickr.com/photos/84265607@N00/2657354553/in/photostream/] [accessed 2 October 2009]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01786SCR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1170? / 1175?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman? / Transitional?
Cognate Fonts: A similar font at Sandridge (Hertfordshire) and at Staunton (Nottinghamshire)
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Wilfrid
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Wilfrid [aka Wilfred, Wilfrith]
Church Address: Screveton, Nottingham NG13 8JL, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 7592 873751
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just E of the A46, 14 km S of Newark-on-Trent, about 8 km N of Bingham
Historical Region: Hundred of Bingham [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
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Throsby (vol. 1, 1790) notes "a curious old font, in high preservation" in this church. Noted in the Transactions of the Thoroton Society (1: 1897): "beautiful Norman (transition) Font, dating about 1170". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy example of late Norman font. Described and illustrated in an article entitled 'Screveton Churches', by the Rev. J. Standish, originally published in the Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 12 (1908), reproduced in the 'Nottinghamshire History and Archaeology' site [www.nottshistory.org.uk/articles]: "The font [...] possesses a beautiful arcade of intersecting arches, with pillars that are practically disengaged from the body of the font. Above the arcade, the rim of the font is adorned with leaf work and a continuous piece of cable work, one strand of which is enriched with the nail-head ornament. The arcading runs closer on the western side, and indicates that the mason has worked without any plan or any preliminary striking, out of his design. At the ends of a diameter of the font, running north and south, it should be noticed that the font has been repaired by two pieces of new Roche stone, given by Lord Scarbrough to the present rector. Apparently the font has possessed a lid, with hinge at one side and hasp at the other." Rev. Standish informs that "about 1170 is the date generally given, and it is spoken of as transitional Norman" but, after comparing its carving to several others, he resolves: "I am inclined to think that this Screveton font may well be from thirty to forty years older than it is generally said to be." The font appears in his illustration with a flat wooden cover, modern, topped with a Latin cross finial, obviously not the one that had the original locking hardware. The font is similar to the font at Sandridge, in Hertfordshire [cf. Index entry]]. Described and illustrated in Cox (1912) with a photograph by J. Charles Wall: "Oldest extant feature is fine and wellpreserved late Norm[an] font, c. 1175. Bowl encircled with interlaced arcading and a foliaged border above; 3 ft. in diameter, and 2 ft. 3 in. high. Flat cover c. 1660." In Guilford (1927). In Pevsner & Williamson (1979).
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 639830 5872410
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.983008, -0.917108
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 58′ 58.83″ N, 0° 55′ 1.59″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 90 cm*
Basin Total Height: 67.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in feet/inches in Cox (1912)]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with a Latin cross finial [cf. FontNotes for evidence of an earlier cover]
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 213
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 12, 80, 176 and ill. on p. opp. 177 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 13 Oct 2009]
- Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927, p. 39, 163
- Moule, Thomas, The English counties delineated; or, A topographical description of England [...], London: George Virtue, 1837 [vol. 2], vol. 2: 234
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979, p. 304
- Thoroton Society, "First annual meeting: Screveton", 1 (1897), Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 1897
- Throsby, John, Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire, 1790, [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=75985] [accessed 2 October 2009]