Clipsham / Clyppesham / Kilpesham / Kylpesham

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design element - motifs - diamond or lozenge

Scene Description: a band of; sandwiched between two bands of saw-tooth

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2011

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 14 June 2011 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2467548] [accessed 13 July 2015]

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design element - motifs - sawtooth

Scene Description: two parallel bands, with a band of lozenge or diamond motif between them

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 14 June 2011 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2467548] [accessed 13 July 2015]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "View from the church gate to the largely 12th, 13th and 14th century parish church at Clipsham. A delightful tower and short broach spire of c1300, rectilinear & reticulated traceried windows and Norman and transitional arcades. A lovely church in an idyllic village setting."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 June 2011 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2467479] [accessed 13 July 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nave and Chancel, looking toward the Altar. The tiled floor dates from the restoration in 1858."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bob Harvey, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 November 2014 by Bob Harvey [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4239704] [accessed 13 July 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St Mary: North Arcade Pillars. The pillars of both Arcades are out-of-vertical, leaning outwards at the top. This does not appear to be a result of movement, so much as deliberate: they are all leaning at precisely the same angle. It looks to me like a very well designed method of controlling the building forces."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bob Harvey, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 November 2014 by Bob Harvey [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4239733] [accessed 13 July 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01833CLI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Clipsham, Rutland, LE15 7SH
Country Name: England
Location: Rutland, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the A1, about 15 km NW of Stamford, near the county border with Lincolnshire
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Soke of Oakham
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
No entry found for Clipsham in the Domesday survey. Paley (1844) describes this as a Norman font in which "the under side of the bowl is bevilled away or rounded off to meet the stem [...] and this hemispherical form is extremely common in Norman fonts as at Cuxwold, Lincolnshire; Clipsham, Rutland; Heydon, Norfolk; Laxton, Northamptonshire; Plymstock, Devonshire." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. The Victoria County History (Rutland, vol. 2, 1935) notes: "The original 12th-century church seems to have been an aisleless building with short square-ended chancel, and probably a west tower. To the nave of this structure a north aisle was added c. 1190 [...] Early in the 13th century a south aisle was added to the nave and the chancel was apparently extended to its present length [...] The building was extensively restored in 1858 [...] The font has a 12th-century circular bowl with a band of hatched ornament round the rim, standing on a circular stem and moulded base." In Pevsner (1984): "Big. Of tub shape, Norman, with a band along the rim of small triangles, lozenges, and again triangles."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.7356, -0.5648
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 44′ 8.16″ N, 0° 33′ 53.28″ W
UTM: 30U 664411 5845640

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: yes; counterweight
Notes: octagonal pyramic with crocketed arrises and fleuron finial

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-07-13 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984