Conisbrough / Burghe Conane / Coningesburg / Coningsburgh / Conisborough / Cyningesburh

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Christ - Christ in Majesty?

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New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Resurrection of Christ?

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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases - 4

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: notice the repair with new stone insert; probably the location of one of the old cover staples

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symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - 6

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view of church exterior - south porch - east side - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Small seated figure set in the east wall of St.Peter's porch, of unknown date but possibly Saxon".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2008 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/923802] [accessed 1 November 2018]

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view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "Normam 12th century south doorway to St.Peter's church with crocketed capitals and zig zag moulding in the arch".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2008 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/923797] [accessed 1 November 2018]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Peter's Church. Now officially South Yorkshire's oldest building, dating from about 750 AD. As such, it pre-dates the castle by about 400 years. Additions to the church were made in 1170, 1350 and 1450."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Smith, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2007 by Mike Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/523041] [accessed 1 November 2018]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Cornfoot, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 April 2007 by Richard Cornfoot [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/406836] [accessed 1 November 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - capital

Scene Description: Source caption: "Norman 12th century waterleaf capital in the south arcade of St.Peter's church".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2008 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/923793] [accessed 1 November 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - capital

Scene Description: Source caption: "Norman 12th century scalloped capital in the north arcade of St.Peter's church".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2008 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/923795] [accessed 1 November 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - capital

Scene Description: Source caption: "Twelfth century, deeply undercut foliated capital in the north arcade of St.Peter's church, the corners would have had carved heads - destroyed during the iconoclasm of the Reformation and the Commonwealth"

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: with the Perpendicular font at the far [west] end, by the tower arch

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 October 2018 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5956725] [accessed 1 November 2018]

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view of church interior - tomb

Scene Description: Source caption: "Remarkable 12th century tomb chest in St.Peter's church, lavishly decorated with unusual carving".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2008 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/923801] [accessed 1 November 2018]

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view of church interior - tomb - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Twelfth century carving of St.George slaying the dragon the Norman tomb chest in St.Peter's church".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2008

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view of font

Scene Description: on the front panel a possible Resurrection

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul Laycock, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2010 by Paul Laycock

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view of font

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view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Doxey, 2009

Image Source: digital image in John Doxey's website [http://johndoxey.100freemb.com/StPetersConisbrough/] [accessed 2 December 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02025CON
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Church Street, Conisbrough, Rotherham DN12 3HL, UK -- Tel.: 01709 259531
Country Name: England
Location: South Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off (SW) the A630-B6094 crossroads, 20 km NE of Sheffield (dir. Doncaster)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Sheffield
Historical Region: Hundred of Strafforth -- formerly WRYrks
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Paul Laycock, Web Adminstrator of St. Peter's Parish, Conisbrough, for the photographs of this font
There is an entry for Conisbrough [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK5198/conisbrough/] [accessed 1 November 2018]; it reports a priest and a church in it. Hunter (1828-1831) writes: "a richly ornamented font. The bason is octagonal, and is raised on a pillar composed of a centre-piece and four cylindrical columns clustered round it. On six faces of the octagon are blank heater shields within quatrefoils. On the seventh face, in bold relief, the figure of an old man seated, naked to the waist, perhaps intended for the Deity. On the eighth face is a group which requires explanation. The subject appears to be a full-grown person stepping over a wall or bar on which is child is kneeling. The whole is in good preservation, but I am unable to offer any reasonable conjecture concerning the design." Noted in Glynne's 15 April 1853 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The font has an octagonal bowl, panelled with quatrefoils containing shields, the stem channelled, with shafts at the angles." Wilson's Gazetteer of 1870-1872 mentions a font but gives neither date nor description. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Morris (1932) writes: "Perp[endicular] (or Dec[orated]) octagonal font. Most of the shields in the quatrefoils are blank, but I seem to have overlooked that two of them are sculptured -one with a Resurrection, and one with a 'seated figure not easily to be identified, apparently holding two palm-branches' (I. A.J. 355)." Pevsner (1986 c1967) writes: "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal, with shields and two panels with figures." Although the rendition of the two figural panels is rather non-standard, it is tempting to identify the two as a Majestas Domini and a Resurrection. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK5121898753] notes: "Church. Probably of C8 origin, remodelled C12, C14 and C15; restored 1866 and in later C19; vestry added 1913-14. [...] Font: Perpendicular, octagonal with 4 shafts about the column; shields and figures in quatrefoiled side panels."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.48303, -1.2295
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 28′ 58.91″ N, 1° 13′ 46.2″ W
UTM: 30U 617483 5927465

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

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
Hunter, Joseph, South Yorkshire, Wakefield: EP Publishing for Sheffield City Libraries, 1974 c1828-1931
Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967
Wilson, John Marius, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales: embracing recent changes in counties, dioceses, parishes, and boroughs [...], Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., 1870-1872