Sutton Bonnington No. 1 / Sutton Bonington

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B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 4?

Scene Description: large ones, one on each alternate side of the basin

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

Copyright Instructions: PD

LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: around the lower base volume

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

Copyright Instructions: PD

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

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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Cox & Harvey (1907: 173)

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 01820SUT

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated

Workshop/Group/Artisan: font with appendage

Cognate Fonts: More English fonts with appendages at Alvington (Gloucs), Castle Combe Wilts), Feniton (Devon), Iron Acton (Gloucs), Odiham (Hants), Pitsford (Nhants), Sutton Bonnington (Notts), Youlgreave (Derbs), etc. [There are many later fonts in France that have larger projections or are actually double-fonts]

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael

Church Address: Main St, Sutton Bonington, Loughborough LE12 5PF, United Kingdom

Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located on the A6006, about 8 km N of Loughborough, 20 km S of Nottingham

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Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a baptismal font of the 14th century; the octagonal bowl has a large quatrefoil motif on every-other panel, while three of the other sides have angular brackets projecting from the rim, two small one and one larger, not hollowed, but flush with the rim; Bond (ibid.) suggests they may have served to support the [portable] basin, cruets of holy oil, etc. The underbowl is a tall chamfer and the base is a mirror image of the chamfer, octagonal and plain; the lower base is wider, also octagonal, and has a large moulding all around. The plinth is octagonal as well. Cox & Harvey (1907) and Guilford (1927) list this as a font of the Decorated period. Described and illustrated in Cox (1912) with a photograph by Rev. R. O. Yearsley: "Octagonal 14th cent. Font has quatrefoils on alternate panels, 4 ft. high, and 2 ft. 6 in. in diameter. Noteworthy in having 3 projecting brackets level with rim. Largest of these, with surface of 9 in. by 8 in. , was probably intended to res the bowl into which fell water from child's head at time of baptism by affusion, and the other smaller ones, each 6 in. across, for salt, taper, or other accessories of mediaeval baptism.. This font should be compared with those of Odiham, Hants, and Youlgreave, Derbyshire, &c." Noted in Pevsner & Williamson (1979) with 14th-century date. [NB: a cognate font, but without the projections, at St. Anne's, the other church in South Bonington]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 617612 5854676

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.828998, -1.254305

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 49′ 44.39″ N, 1° 15′ 15.5″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Diameter (includes rim): 75 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 120 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [in feet/inches in Cox & Harvey (1907) and Cox (1912)]

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 67, 69 and ill. on p. 65
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 172-173, 214
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 12, 80, 208-209, and ill. on p. opp. 208 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 13 Oct 2009]
Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927, p. 39, 193
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979, p. 342