Holdgate / Castle Holdgate / Holgate / Stanton / Stantune
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Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 15 August 1981 by Timothy Marlow
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Image Source: digital image of an engraving from a drawing by Mrs. Stackhouse Acton, del., in Eyton (1859- ) and in Anderson (1864).
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: at the lower end of the underbowl
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design element - motifs - plant
Scene Description: resembling writhing snake bodies
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design element - motifs - Bowen knot or looped square - beaded-tape
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design element - motifs - vine
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design element - motifs
Scene Description: two lumps, threaded by braid
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design element - motifs - rope - braided - beaded-tape
Scene Description: around the upper rim
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design element - motifs - circle - with spiral thread looping
Scene Description: with odd propeller-like X-motif inside
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animal - reptile - snake
Scene Description: smiley bird-like head?
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design element - motifs - interlace - 2-strand
Scene Description: to the right of the cross-in-a-circle
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design element - motifs - circle - cross inside
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Scene Description: the old font is visible inside the church
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Image Source: digital image of an engraving in Timmins (1899)
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design element - motifs - zigzag
Scene Description: thick and tall zig-zag
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animal - head - 4
Scene Description: one at each corner of the lower base; some damaged
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 03241HOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2000-07-17
Font Date: ca. 1130? / ca. 1140?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid?), Late Norman
Cognate Fonts: The fonts at Holdgate, Eardisley, Castle Frome and Chaddesley Corbett are related in style
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
Church Notes: The church has a fine Norman chancel arch.
Church Address: Holdgate, Shropshire, TF13 6LW, United Kingdom
Site Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 25-30 kms SE of Shrewsbury, to the W of Wolverhampton.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Historical Region: Hundred of Patton [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Munslow
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Holdgate [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SO5689/holdgate/] [accessed 29 June 2015], one of which, in the lordship of Helgot 'of Holdgate', mentions a priest and a church in it. Engraving from a drawing by Mrs. Stackhouse Acton, del., in Eyton (1859- ) and in Anderson (1864). Described in Timmins (1899): "The font is evidently very ancient, the interlaced ornamentation around the bowl having a Celtic look, while the corners of the base are ornamented with [??] sculptured monsters." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Norman period. Both Bond (1908) and Pudelko (1932) show a chalice-shaped font of early Norman style, its ornamentation rich and varied: on the side of the rounded basin appear, under a rope motif rim, a number of original images and a beaded-tape circle with a large "X" motif followed by a beautiful beaded-tape quadrangle with four loops, one at each corner, with a braid which appears and disappears through the side's motifs; the underbowl has a wavy double snake body, the empty spaces filled with other motifs. The base is cylindrical and short, adorned with a large zig-zag moulding inside two parallel ones top and bottom. The plinth or lower base is larger and square, with animal heads at the corners; Bond calls them "slewn" animals. Noted in the Victoria County History (Shropshire, vol. 10, 1998) as similar to the fonts at Eardisley, Castle Frome and Chaddesley Corbett, and dated perhaps ca. 1140. Dated "mid-C12 bowl" in Newman & Pevsner (2006). The font comes through with very distinct and strong characteristics within a general feel of Norman carving [NB: but it is now -July 2000- covered in a nasty green quasi-fluorescent moss]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Harding, of www.sheelanagig.org, and to Timothy Marlow, for their photographs of this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 523948 5816989
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.5025, -2.6472
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 30′ 9″ N, 2° 38′ 49.92″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: round, mounted -- chalice-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 9-10 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 53 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 72-73 cm
Basin Depth: 30 cm
Basin Total Height: 40 cm
Height of Base: 20 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 60 cm
Font Height (with Plinth): 75 cm
Square Base Dimensions: 82 x 82 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain; modern
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864, pl. 264
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 55, 155, 185 and ill. on p. 54
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 215
- 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, p. 16
- Eyton, Robert William, The Antiquities of Shropshire, London: John Russell Smith, 1856-, vol. 4: 4
- Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006, p. 304 and pl. 15
- Pudelko, Georg, Romanische Taufsteine, Berlin: Wurfel Verlag, 1932, pl. XI
- Timmins, H. Thornhill, Nooks and corners of Shropshire, London: Elliot Stock, 1899, p. 128
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 53, 57