Great Casterton / Bridgecasterton / Brigcasturton / Brigg Casterton / Briggecasterton / Brygg Castreton / Casterton Magna / Castretone / Magna Casterton
Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2015
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Results: 5 records
design element - motifs - chevron - nested chevrons
Scene Description: the better executed concentric lozenges become at times not-so-perfect bested chevrons
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4499114] [accessed 22 July 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
design element - motifs - lozenge - concentric lozenges
Scene Description: seen here on the west side of the font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4499111] [accessed 22 July 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
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/great-casterton-st-peter-st-paul/] [accessed 22 July 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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/great-casterton-st-peter-st-paul/] [accessed 22 July 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover in context - southwest side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 October 2007 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/599946] [accessed 22 July 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 01832CAS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Location: Main Street, Great Casterton, Rutland. PE9 4AP
Country Name: England
Location: Rutland, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the B1081, 4 km WNW of Stamford, near the county border with Lincs.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Witchley [in Domesday] -- East Hundred
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, about level with the S doorway
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church
There is an entry for [Great] Casterton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TF0008/great-casterton/] [accessed 22 July 2015]; it mentions a priest, but not a church in it, though there probably was one there. Moule (1837) writes: "The font is Anglo-Norman, and curious from its antiquity." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy example. The Victoria County History (Rutland, vol. 2, 1935) notes: " There was probably a church in Great Casterton in the 11th century, as a priest is recorded in the Domesday Survey (1086). [...] The greater part of the church as it exists to-day belongs to the 13th century, but it has apparently developed from a 12th-century building consisting of an aisleless nave the same size as the present one, the eastern angles of which still exist [...] The rectangular unmounted font stands on a chamfered plinth and may be of late 12th- or early 13th-century date. Each of its sides is covered with an incised pattern of diagonal lines in four panels. It has a modern flat oak cover. [...] The cover is in memory of Joseph Place, rector 1861–78." Described in Pevsner (1984): "Square bowl with an all-over pattern of lozenges within lozenges (cf. Hungarton, Peckleton, Rothley in Leicestershire). Norman."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.6677,
-0.5212
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 40′ 3.72″ N,
0° 31′ 16.32″ W
UTM: 30U 667614 5838190
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th century?
Material:
wood,
oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-07-22 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Moule, Thomas, The English counties delineated; or, A topographical description of England [...], London: George Virtue, 1837 [vol. 2]
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984
