Fishlake / Fixcale

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B04: cleric - bishop - baptism function

Scene Description: one of several episcopal functions depicted on the font sides: a baptismal font with a person in it stands before the bishop

design element - architectural - arch-head - Ogee - pinnacled and crocketed - 8

Scene Description: one on each side of the basin, including a bishop in it

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: the saintly figure may br St. Cuthbert

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - archivolt

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - west tower

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 July 2000 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: seen from behind the old baptismal font -- there appears to be another font in the chancel in this photograph [date unknown]

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in the Fishlake Historical Society [www.fishlakevillage.co.uk/history.htm] [accessed 13 October 2016]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: showing the old font and cover at the west end of the centre aisle

Image Source: [www.langhorns.co.uk]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

view of font

Image Source: B&W photograph in Bond (1908)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font

Image Source: engraving in Hunter (1828-1831)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font - east side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 July 2000 by BSI

view of font - north side

view of font - southwest side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 July 2000 by BSI

view of font cover

Scene Description: with a painted inscription all around

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 July 2000 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 02019FIS

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Cuthbert

Church Patron Saints: St. Cuthbert [aka Cubertus]

Church Location: Church Street, Fishlake, Doncaster DN7 5JW

Country Name: England

Location: South Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the M18, 10 km NE of Doncaster

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Sheffield

Historical Region: Hundred of Strafforth in Domesday] -- formerly West Riding of Yorkshire

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, centre of nave

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Late Decorated

Church Notes: the CRSBI (2018) notes remains of a 12thC church here [excellent S doorway to nave [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1421/] [accessed 7 November 2018]]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Fishlake [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/] [accessed 13 October 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Hunter (1828-1831) illustrates the font in this church and refers to St. Cuthbert, patron of the church, indicating that the dedication to this saint was not the original one, but acquired "when the church was given to the monks of Durham, and that then, and not before, it became dedicated to St. Cuthbert. The image of the same saint is repeated on each of the sides of the fine octagonal font which, raised on four steps, presents itself, striking and beautiful object, on first entering the church." Noted in Lawton (1842), who refers to Hunter's South Yorkshire. Noted in Glynne's 30 October 1867 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The font is splendid, of Decorated character. The bowl octagonal, round the upper part a cornice of wavy lines foliated, and on each face an ogee canopy richly crocketed and finialed and projecting; on the south side is a statue beneath a canopy, at the angles are buttresses set on head corbels, there is some panelling on the stem, and the whole is set on octagonal steps." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated Period. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a superb example of richly designed 14th-century font: octagonal basin with sides deeply carved into arcaded niches, each with a figure -apparently a bishop- in it, while the panels are separated by rounded columns which end in flowery capitals; the theme of the basin panels appears to be the functions or duties of bishops. the underbowl has busts at the corners; the octagonal pedestal is wholly surrounded by cusped rectangular panels; lower base is also octagonal, wider at bottom; the plinth is octagonal; the octagonal wooden lid is elaborate and has an inscription [cf. Inscription] and a white dove as finial. Morris (1932) describes it as "a fine example of the 14th century [...] exceedingly striking Dec[orated] font, with canopied statues in each of its eight faces." Pevsner (1986 c1967) writes: "Font. Octagonal. Possibly C14, because of the nodding ogee canopies under which stand statuettes of saints. The sculptural style however is more probably that of C15. -- Font cover. Jacobean; rather rustic." Harman & Pevsner (2017) re-date font to Mid-14C", the cover" Jacobean, rather rustic". Jenkins (1999) calls it "a fine Decorated font" and cites Norman Pounds' description of it as "a work of great beauty."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.610356, -1.009955

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 36′ 37.28″ N, 1° 0′ 35.84″ W

UTM: 30U 631654 5942012

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead lined

Rim Thickness: 12-16 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 64 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 88 x 96 cm (diagonals)

Basin Depth: 30 cm

Height of Basin Side: 60 cm

Basin Total Height: 83 cm

Height of Base: 47 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 130 cm

Font Height (with Plinth): 155 cm (two plinths)

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: English

Inscription Notes: on the font cover, not the font itself

Inscription Location: font lid

Inscription Text: "GO YEE THEREFORE AND TEACH ALL NATIONS BAPTIZING THEM IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND OF THE SON AND OF THE HOLY GHOST"

Inscription Source: BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-18th century?

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: large wooden lid has counterweight mechanism for lifting

Notes: bird finial

REFERENCES

Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958

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

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

Crossley, Frederick Herbert, English Church Craftsmanship: an Introduction to the Work of the Mediaval Period and Some Account of Later Developments, London: B.T. Batsford, 1941

Friar, Stephen, The Sutton Companion to Churches, Thrupp, Stroud (Gloucs.): Sutton Publishing, 2003

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

Harman, Ruth, Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2017

Hunter, Joseph, South Yorkshire, Wakefield: EP Publishing for Sheffield City Libraries, 1974 c1828-1931

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

Lawton, George, Collectio rerum ecclesiasticarum de dioecesi eboracensi, or, Collections relatives to churches and chapels within the diocese of York, to which are added Collections relative to churches and chapels withing the diocese of Ripon, London; York: J. G. and F. Rivington, […] Hatchard and Son, […] and H. Bellerby, 1842

Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967