Holdgate / Castle Holdgate / Holgate / Stanton / Stantune

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animal - head - 4

Scene Description: one at each corner of the lower base; some damaged

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

animal - reptile - snake

Scene Description: smiley bird-like head?

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

design element - motifs

Scene Description: two lumps, threaded by braid

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 2000

design element - motifs - Bowen knot or looped square - beaded-tape

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

design element - motifs - circle - cross inside

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

design element - motifs - circle - with spiral thread looping

Scene Description: with odd propeller-like X-motif inside

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

design element - motifs - interlace - 2-strand

Scene Description: to the right of the cross-in-a-circle

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

design element - motifs - plant

Scene Description: resembling writhing snake bodies

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

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: at the lower end of the underbowl

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

design element - motifs - roll moulding

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

design element - motifs - rope - braided - beaded-tape

Scene Description: around the upper rim

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

design element - motifs - vine

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 2000

design element - motifs - zigzag

Scene Description: thick and tall zig-zag

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

view of church exterior - south porch

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

view of church exterior - south porch - interor - portal - detail

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

view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital image of an engraving from a drawing by Mrs. Stackhouse Acton, del., in Eyton (1859- ) and in Anderson (1864).

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: the old font is visible inside the church

Image Source: digital image of an engraving in Timmins (1899)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of church exterior - southwest end

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

view of font

Image Source: digital image of an engraving from a drawing by Mrs. Stackhouse Acton, del., in Eyton (1859- ) and in Anderson (1864).

Copyright Instructions: PD

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: BSI - Photographed July 2000

view of font

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

view of font and cover

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 15 August 1981 by Timothy Marlow

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

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph by John Harding [www.sheelanagig.org]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received

INFORMATION

FontID: 03241HOL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity

Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity

Church Location: Holdgate, Shropshire, TF13 6LW, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Shropshire, West Midlands

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

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

Date: ca. 1130? / ca. 1140?

Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Late Norman

Cognate Fonts: The fonts at Holdgate, Eardisley, Castle Frome and Chaddesley Corbett are related in style

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Harding, of www.sheelanagig.org, and to Timothy Marlow, for their photographs of this font.

Church Notes: The church has a fine Norman chancel arch.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.5025, -2.6472

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 30′ 9″ N, 2° 38′ 49.92″ W

UTM: 30U 523948 5816989

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-. Accessed: 2010-04-12 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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

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

Eyton, Robert William, The Antiquities of Shropshire, London: John Russell Smith, 1856-

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

Pudelko, Georg, Romanische Taufsteine, Berlin: Wurfel Verlag, 1932

Timmins, H. Thornhill, Nooks and corners of Shropshire, London: Elliot Stock, 1899

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928