Exton nr. Cottersmore / Egeston / Exentune / Ecston / Extune
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hyde, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Colin Hyde, 2006 [East Midlands Oral History Archive [www.le.ac.uk/emoha]]
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Scene Description: engraving by (Thomas) Orlando Sheldon Jewitt (1799-1869)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving by Orlando Jewitt in Paley (1844: unpaged)
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human figure - head - 8
Scene Description: Eight human heads, alternating male and female, each in one of the spandrels of the basin side arcade
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hyde, 2006
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - columns - with capitals and bases - 8
Scene Description: all around the basin sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hyde, 2006
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/exton-church-st-peter-and-st-paul/] [accessed 16 July 2015]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/exton-church-st-peter-and-st-paul/] [accessed 16 July 2015]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/exton-church-st-peter-and-st-paul/] [accessed 16 July 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/exton-church-st-peter-and-st-paul/] [accessed 16 July 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/exton-church-st-peter-and-st-paul/] [accessed 16 July 2015]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01830EXT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (late?), Decorated? / Early Perpendicular?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Address: Exton, Rutland, LE15 8AX
Site Location: Rutland, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located E of the A1, 3 km N of the A606, SE of Cottesmore, equidistant from Oakham and Stamford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Alstoe
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the early-12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for this Exton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK9211/exton/] [accessed 16 July 2015], neither of which mention cleric or church in it. A font here is described and illustrated [engraving by Orlando Jewitt] in Paley (1844): unmounted octagonal font from the 14th century, "a very elegant example of a Decorated Font [...] beautiful even in a style remarkable for beauty". The basin sides have a an arcade of eight trefoil ogee arches with crocketed finials; between these finials are the heads, alternately male and female, right under the upper rim. Inside each arch of the arcade there is a lancet-shaped niche housing an ogee window. There is a two-step plinth, also octagonal. Listed Cox & Harvey (1907), Bond (1908), Tyrrell-Green (1928). The Victoria County History (Rutland, vol. 2, 1935) notes: "The church of Exton was given 'with the whole tithe and whatsoever Walter the chaplain held in the same' by Henry I [i.e., 1100-1135] to the monks of La Charité serving God in the church of St. Andrew of Northampton, a grant confirmed by his grandson Henry II, by Hugh de Wells, Bishop of Lincoln, and in 1329 by Edward III. [...] No part of the [present] building is older than the 13th century, in the early part of which period the church appears to have been rebuilt on its present symmetrical plan, the tower being added in the 14th century, and the clearstory erected [...] The octagonal 14th-century tub font has shafted angles with moulded bases and capitals from which spring trefoiled ogee arches terminating in rich finials, between which, in the spandrels, are heads, alternately male and female. Within the niches the sides have trefoiled panels. [...] The flat cover of oak and bronze dates from 1905." Noted in Pevsner (1984): "Without any division between stem and bowl. Eight shafts with deep niches between. Ogee arches and heads in the spandrels. Probably later C14."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hyde, of the East Midlands Oral History Archive [www.le.ac.uk/emoha] and to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire & Rutland Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk] & [www.rutlandchurches.co.uk], for their photographs of this church and font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 659510 5840426
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.690228, -0.639845
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 41′ 24.82″ N, 0° 38′ 23.44″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, unmounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Notes on Measurements: No measurements given in Paley
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1905
Material: wood and metal, oak & bronze
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, carved top; metal handles at opposite ends [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 43, 231
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 215
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, unpaged
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984, p. 468
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 19, 73, 92