Hodnet / Odenet

Results: 23 records

B01: animal - mammal - cat - catching a mouse

Scene Description: Large cat-like feline about to catch a minute and squalid four-legged animal which looks more like a lizard than a mouse

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 2000 by BSI

B02: animal - mammal - lion - passant

Scene Description: passant to the right

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 2000 by BSI

B03: animal - mammal - lion - passant

Scene Description: passant to the left

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 2000 by BSI

B04: design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 5-petal - 4

Scene Description: One in each of the for spaces of a large "X" or St Andrew's cross

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 2000 by BSI

B05: animal - bird - eagle - wings spread

Scene Description: Heraldic-looking eagle; head faces left

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 2000 by BSI

B06: design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis - 4

Scene Description: all pointng to the centre of a large "X"; arranged like the rosettes in B04

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 2000 by BSI

B07: animal - bird - peacock - passant

Scene Description: passant to the left

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 2000 by BSI

B08: design element - motifs - floral - rosette - radiated frame

Scene Description: could be read as a rosette in the intersection of two crosses (saltire + Greek) in a Union Jack-like arrangement

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 2000 by BSI

design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: there is a moulding where the stem of the base meets the plinth; it is badly damaged on this side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 2000 by BSI

design element - motifs - moulding and piping

Scene Description: framing the panels on the basin sides

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 2000 by BSI

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: the upper rim moulding has practically disappeared on this side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 2000 by BSI

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: much of it broken off on the centre and right side here

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 2000 by BSI

design element - motifs - vine - acanthus

all around the lower basin sides -- notice also the damage shown here at various levels: the upper left panel has large damage which may have resulted from a metal staple from an old cover; the whole piping moulding on the right is practically missing, as is part of the roll moulding below; there is also considerable damage to the underbowl, below left

Scene Description: all around the lower basin sides -- notice also the damage shown here at various levels: the upper left panel has large damage which may have resulted from a metal staple from an old cover; the whole piping moulding on the right is practically missing, as is part of the roll moulding below; there is also considerable damage to the underbowl, below left

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 2000 by BSI

human figure - head - 4?

alternating with pine-cone like motifs in the down ondulations of an acanthus vine -- two of the heads are visible here, at left and right; one other is damaged, broken off

Scene Description: alternating with pine-cone like motifs in the down ondulations of an acanthus vine -- two of the heads are visible here, at left and right; one other is damaged, broken off

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 2000 by BSI

symbol - fruit - grapes? (arum?) - 4

alternating with the four human heads in the down ondulations of an acanthus vine -- one of them seen here in the centre; one other is damaged, broken off

Scene Description: alternating with the four human heads in the down ondulations of an acanthus vine -- one of them seen here in the centre; one other is damaged, broken off

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2009 by Mike White [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1323622] [accessed 19 November 2016]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 9 August 2011 by David Dixon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2552173] [accessed 19 Nvovember 2016]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior - southeast view

Source caption: "St Luke's Church, Hodnet [...] The oldest part of the building (the south isle) dates from the 12th century. In the 14th century the church was remodelled, with the south isle chapel, nave, chancel and rare three-stage octagonal tower added. The church was restored in the latter half of the nineteenth century."

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Luke's Church, Hodnet [...] The oldest part of the building (the south isle) dates from the 12th century. In the 14th century the church was remodelled, with the south isle chapel, nave, chancel and rare three-stage octagonal tower added. The church was restored in the latter half of the nineteenth century."

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 9 August 2011 by David Dixon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2552178] [accessed 19 Nvovember 2016]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 2000 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 2000 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 2000 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 July 2000 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: one of the passant lions is missing in Anderson's engraving

Image Source: digital image of an engraving in Anderson (1864)

Copyright Instructions: PD

INFORMATION

FontID: 02488HOD

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Luke

Church Patron Saints: St. Luke

Church Location: Church Street, Hodnet, Market Drayton TF9 3NL, UK -- Tel.: +44 1630 685491

Country Name: England

Location: Shropshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off the A53m 13 kms N of Shrewsbury

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lichfield

Historical Region: Hundred of Hodnet

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [re-carved in the 17th century], Medieval [altered]

Church Notes: original church pre-Conquest; present church 12thC; remodelled 14th, 19thC

Font Notes: Click to view

There is antry for Hodnet [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SJ6128/hodnet/] [accessed 19 November 2016]; it mentions a priest and a church in it. A font here is illustrated in Anderson (1864), who notes the church as being "a Saxon foundation" mentioned in Domesday. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Norman period. Newman & Pevsner (2006) suggest: "probably C12 in origin but embellished later, perhaps in the C17. Norman foliage motifs and Norman-looking lions and rosettes. But the cock and the spread eagle cannot possibly be Norman, nor is the placing of the motifs in the panels convincing." On-site notes: the Hodnet font has been called Norman and, on several occasions, assigned an early date, but the shape and ornamentation, especially the eagle on one of the basin sides, etc., point to a later date, as pointed out in Newman & Pevsner above. The upper outer part of the basin is octagonal, the lower rounded; the sides of the basin have: 1)a cat about to catch a mouse; 2)a lion facing right; 3)a lion facing left; 4)four rosettes; 5)a heraldic eagle; 6)four fleur-de-lis, each in one of the spaces of a large "X"; 7)a peacock facing left; 8)a Latin cross over St. Andrew's cross with rosette in the centre. The lower part of the basin sides is encircled by a large vine and, at each corner of the upper sides, a human head or a bunch of grapes. alternating. The underbowl is plain. The base is plain, short and cylindrical. The whole basin has been whitewashed, but the red sandstone, said to be from a local quarry, appears underneath the paint. Tisdall (1998?) shows part of the side in which a cat catches a smaller long-tailed animal, probably a mouse or a rat, and captions it: "The Devil catches the unwary soul"; the eagle with wings spread is captioned: "The start of a new spiritual life with the help of the Holy Spirit." [NB: if the carving were of the same date as the font it the font could not be Norman, but it could be as Newman & Pevsner suggest, a 17th-century re-carving of an older font - The church goes back to Anglo-Saxon times but we have no information of an earlier font of that church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.853669, -2.577486

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 51′ 13.21″ N, 2° 34′ 38.95″ W

UTM: 30U 528451 5856076

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (red local stone)

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

Rim Thickness: 16-18 cm (19-20 cm at the angles)

Diameter (inside rim): 55 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 88 x 95 cm (min.&max. diagonals)

Basin Depth: 25 cm

Height of Basin Side: 32 cm

Basin Total Height: 70 cm

Height of Base: 25 cm

Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 32 x 36 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 95 cm

Font Height (with Plinth): 110 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

REFERENCES

Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864

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

Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006

Tisdall, M. W., God's beasts: identify and understand animals in church carvings, England: Charlesfort Press, 1998?