Tideswell / Tidesuuelle

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design element - motifs - moulding

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2007 by Dave Pape [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tideswell_Church_baptismal_font_1.jpg] [accessed 8 November 2009]

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil

Scene Description: seen here on the left [southwest] panel of the basin

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 February 2013 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

symbol - book - open book

Scene Description: on the northeast side of the basin [cf. Font notes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rosemary Lockie, 2013

Image Source: B&W photograph originally in Revd. J.M.J. Fletcher's 'A Guide to Tideswell and Its Church', reproduced by Rosemary Lockie in

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symbol - chalice

Scene Description: on the east side of the basin [cf. Font notes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rosemary Lockie, 2013

Image Source: B&W photograph originally in Revd. J.M.J. Fletcher's 'A Guide to Tideswell and Its Church', reproduced by Rosemary Lockie in

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symbol - shield

Scene Description: several; one seen here on the south side of the basin [cf. Font notes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 February 2013 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tideswellman, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 April 2014 by Tideswellman [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tideswell-church-front-pano.jpg] [accessed 21 February 2015]

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view of font and cover - south side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 February 2013 by Timothy Marlow

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view of font and cover - southeast side

Scene Description: the chalice is visible on the front [east] panel; less clearly, on the right [northeast] panel is the open book

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 21 June 2007 by Dave Pape [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tideswell_Church_baptismal_font_2.jpg] [accessed 8 November 2009]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: at the west end of the nave; the east side of the font has the chalice on it, but barely discernible now

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2007 by Dave Pape [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tideswell_Church_baptismal_font_2.jpg] [accessed 8 November 2009]

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view of font and cover in context - south side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 February 2013 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

view of font and cover in context - southeast view

Scene Description: the shield on the left [south] panel; the chalice on the right [east] panel

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 February 2013 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

INFORMATION

FontID: 02051TID
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist [aka "Cathedral of the Peak" (though not actually a cathedral)]
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Commercial Road, Tideswell, Derbyshire, SK17 8LF
Country Name: England
Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located about 15 km ENE of Buxton (follow the A6 to Blackwell; take the B6049 north -left turn- past Miller's Dale to Tideswell)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Derby
Historical Region: Hundred of Blackwell [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end; earlier in the N transept [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Timothy Marlow for his photographs of this font
Church Notes: church here by 1086; present church 14thC; restored 1875
There is an entry for Tideswell [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SK1575/tideswell/] [accessed 21 February 2015]; it mentions a priest, a church and church lands in it. Cox (1875-1877) quotes from Pegge's 1781 [Mary Sterndale?] comments on this church and its contents: "In a corner of a transept is an ancient font; it is now regularly used by the workpeople to mix their colours in, when they beautify the church with blue and mahogany paint"; Cox (ibid.) adds that the font "was rescued by the present vicar, and restored to the church. It is of octagon shape, and has various devices, including a chalice and an open book, incised on its different faces." Noted in Kelly's Directory of 1891. Bond (1908) repeats the information from Pegge and Cox: "The font at Tideswell was found by a late vicar in a rubbish heap, where it had been left by the eighteenth century churchwardens, who used it as the parish paint pot when they beautified the church with blue and mahogany paint". English Heritage [Listing NGR: SK1525675774] (1967) reports a "Medieval font with octagonal bowl and fluted stem on a circular base. Bowl decorated with quatrefoil, chalice, shield and book devices", which matches other descriptions except for the "fluted stem"; was there another stem at the time or is it simply an error? Bunting (2001) gives the date of the painters' deed as "170 years ago", i.e., 1831. None of the above sources mentions the date of the font, though Bunting calls it "ancient". Pevsner (1978) writes: "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal, with shields and simple panels." The panels of the basin are now [2007] very worn and only outlines can be discerned; the pedestal base is octagonal, with a central moulding constraining the shape; raised on a circular plinth. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.2788, -1.7726
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 16′ 43.68″ N, 1° 46′ 21.36″ W
UTM: 30U 581838 5903988

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Bunting, Julie, "Take a a look at: fonts", 14 May 2001, The Peak Advertiser, 2001, pp. pl. & p. 7; r["References"]
Cox, John Charles, 1875-1877
Kelly, Kelly's Directory of the counties of Derby, Notts., Leicester and Rutland, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1891
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Derbyshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978