Adel No. 1 / Addle / Adele / Adhill

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view of church - detail

Scene Description: a number of details from both the exterior and interior of the church

Image Source: undated drawing by I W Hugall, lithographer W Trask, in LEODIS, a photographic archive of Leeds [www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=9049] [accessed 21 August 2015]

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view of church exterior - south door - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Undated. View of the sanctuary or closing ring on the door of the south porch to Adel Parish Church of St. John the Baptist. The ring is made of bronze and shows a dragon's head which appears to be swallowing a man. This represents the mouth of Hell, a popular symbol taken from Medieval plays. The workmanship of this bronze ring is very fine and is believed to date from the 13th century." [NB: unfortunately tis original handle was stolen in 2002; a replacement replica is now in its place].

Image Source: photograph taken by Wormald of Leeds, 20021017_4191225, Class no. Kirk Collection-Leeds Churches Vol 3 76 (1) (LQ 283 K634) & Old Leeds Views, Part 2, No. 63B, SRF 914.2819 WOR, in LEODIS, a photographic archive of Leeds [www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/screen/25/20021017_4191225.jpg] [accessed 21 August 2015]

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view of church exterior - south porch

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 1998

view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: image from a lithograph by G. Hawkins, in LEODIS, a photographic archive of Leeds [www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/screen/48/9048.jpg] [accessed 21 August 2015]

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view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 1998

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 1998

view of church interior - chancel arch

Image Source: image from a lithograph by G. Hawkins, in LEODIS, a photographic archive of Leeds [www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/screen/51/9051.jpg] [accessed 21 August 2015]

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view of church interior - chancel arch - north side - capital

Scene Description: Source caption: "This capital shows the Baptism of Christ on its S face. Christ is haloed, visible from the waist up and standing in a heap of stripey water with both arms raised. A bird, the Holy Spirit, is above his head. The Baptist, dressed like a 12thc. man, stands on the R of centre. He seems to be blessing and holding a book. On the L an angel flies in with arms outstretched holding a cloth in the Byzantine manner. Below the angel is a four-legged animal sipping at the water. The animal seems to be a boar. On the far right stands a crowned figure in a skirt (and perhaps no upper clothing) who holds a leafing staff, and perhaps a book. The leafing staff runs into a similar plant which grows from the ring of the capital. The staff can be understood as a shoot from the larger form, which spreads onto the E face of the capital. [...] Considering chancel arch capitals of the first order: compare N capital (Baptism of Christ), with an ivory casket of the Metz school, 9thc.-10thc., which shows some of the same iconography. A baptism scene on a wooden door in Sant Maria im Kapitol, Cologne, dating from before 1065, shows water pouring itself from a vessel to the right of Christ, whose feet stand on the stream. To the left of his feet, the stream of water becomes a dog-like animal with its head turned upward. It is likely that the figure on the right is King David holding the shoot from the stem of Jesse. Isaiah 11:1,2 is a prophecy that associates the descent of the seven spirits of God (suitable for this baptism) with the shoot out of the root of Jesse, that is, Christ. It is possible that the crowned figure might symbolise the river Jordan, for this compare the mosaic in the dome of the Arian baptistery, Ravenna. In this mosaic, the classical personification of Jordan holds up a leafing branch but has two horns on his head. For the boar, compare an 8thc. slab 'Exaltation of the Cross'."

Image Source: B&W photograph taken by John McElheran, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/576/] [accessed 21 August 2015]

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view of church interior - chancel arch - north side - capital - detail

Image Source: B&W photograph taken by John McElheran, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/576/] [accessed 21 August 2015]

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view of church interior - chancel arch - north side - capital - detail

Image Source: B&W photograph taken by John McElheran, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/576/] [accessed 21 August 2015]

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view of church interior - chancel arch - north side - capital - detail

Image Source: B&W photograph taken by John McElheran, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/576/] [accessed 21 August 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: undated postcard no. 201155_172147, in Artemis Pack 39 (Adel) no.11 [www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=201155_172147] [accessed 21 August 2015]

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view of font

Scene Description: note the modern base

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 1998

view of font and cover

Scene Description: note the flat cover

Image Source: B&W photograph Kirk Collection-Leeds Churches Vol 3 80 (2) (LQ 283 K634) [ref. 30U 593092 5967639] in LEODIS [www.leodis.net]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 1998

view of font cover

Scene Description: In oak, dated 1921, the work of Eric Gill [cf. Font notes for details]

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 1998

view of object

Scene Description: Source caption: "June 1967. Photograph of old stone font at Adel Church. The church was built between 1150 and 1160. The south porch was added 1160-1170 and remains one of the finest examples of Norman sculpture in England. The church is a Grade 1 listed building." [NB: this object is noted and illustrated in the CRSBI (2015) [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/576/] [accessed 21 August 2015] with a note about its disappearance in September 2002]

Image Source: B&W photograph taken June 1967 no. 9369/570 in LEODIS, a photographic archive of Leeds [www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=9369] [accessed 20 August 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02002ADE

Church/Chapel: Church of St. John the Baptist

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: Church Lane, Adel, West Yorkshire, LS16 8DW

Country Name: England

Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Adel is now a suburb of Leeds, about 7 km from the centre, 40 km from York

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of West Yorskshire and the Dales [formerly in the diocese of York]

Historical Region: Hundred of Skyrack [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end in the centre of the nave, to the left of the S door.

Date: ca. 1130?

Century and Period: 12th century (early?) [basin only], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Carol Johnson for her information regarding the move of Adel's font to and from Leeds Infirmary

Church Notes: 12th-century Norman Church with capitals in nave under Norman arch into chancel carved with a scene of Christ's Baptism; another capital has a Crucifixion. -- Bond (1985 c1908) describes and illustrates a baptismal scene *on a capital* at Adel: an angel horizontal to the ground, wings fully open and hands hold a scroll; next is Christ in the water to his waste, the dove of the Holy Ghost over his head; to his right, John the Baptist holds (touches?) his hand; to the right a figure (Ecclesia?, Mary?) holding a branch (?); also centaur with bow and arrow (ibid.: 183)

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Adel [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE2740/adel/] [accessed 20 August 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Poole (1842) reports an error of his during a lecture in which "I said that the present font was a wooden one. It is of stone, and so satisfies the canon; but in every way else it deserves that severe comment which I made upon it." Noted in Glynne's visit of 19 July 1866 (in Butler, 2007): "The font has an octagonal bowl of large size, upon a cylindrical stem, and a round base with dancette moulding." The Antiquary (August 10, 1872, p. 189) reports on a visit by the Leeds Academian Society to this church, the history of which was presented to them by the incumbent. "The font was stated to be the same age as the church, which was built about the year 1130, in the reign of King Stephen" [NB: Stephen's reign went from 1135 to 1154; Henry I reigned between 1100 and 1135]. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Noted in Mee (1941): "the font (looking old enough to be Norman) has a striking modern cover with panels showing scenes of the Crucifixion with the two thieves, the Upper Room, and the Sacraments of the Church, Marriage represented in Georgian setting, and Baptism in the days when men wore armour." On-site notes: the octagonal basin is plain but the octagonal font cover by Eric Gill, dated 1921, is ornamented with six of the Sacraments [minus Penance], Crucifixion of Christ, and Christians in Heaven, as well as with other ornamental motifs. There is evidence of lifting apparatus - using counter-weight hanging from wooden beams. The basin is plain and may have been recut; the modern base is round with zig-zag motif all around. The "Guide Book" at this Church ([s.d.], [s.l.], p. 4) informs that the font "was 'found' in the churchyard in 1858, and was, presumably, the font which was taken out in 1801 to make room for a 'miserable pillar and a small basin holding about a quart of water', as the rector of the time described it". It also adds that the newer font, "more like a sundial or garden ornament", was later moved to "the entrance hall of the Leeds General Infirmary, to which it has been sent on 'permanent loan'." [NB: we are informed [e-mail to BSI from Carol Johnson]: "I have today spoken with the historian associated with Adel Church and she tells me that it is in fact the original medieval font, which you would have seen in 1998, that is at present in situ at the church. Apparently, in c1800 the vicar incumbent at the time replaced it with a new font but this was only used until c1858 when the following vicar at that time re-instated the medieval font. The one now at Leeds General Infirmary is that which was used at Adel between c1800-58, which still remains the property of the Church and is located in the old section of the hospital. I hope this clarifies the situation."]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.858567, -1.585053

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 51′ 30.84″ N, 1° 35′ 6.19″ W

UTM: 30U 593060 5968714

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: three

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted) -- chalice-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Rim Thickness: 20-24 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 54 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 95-100 cm

Basin Depth: 15 cm (very shallow)

Height of Basin Side: 13 cm

Basin Total Height: 26 cm

Height of Base: 65 cm [modern]

Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm

Font Height (with Plinth): 108 cm (plinth 18 cm)

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1921

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: yes

Notes: Octagonal font cover by Eric Gill: six of the Sacraments [minus Penance], Crucifixion of Christ, and Christians in Heaven

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2015-08-21 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007

Jenkins, Simon, England's Thousand Best Churches, London and New York: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999 [2000 rev. printing]

Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941

Poole, George Ayliffe, The Appropriate Character of Church Architecture, Leeds; London: T.W. Green; Rivington, Burns, and Houlston and Stoneman, 1842