Rothley / Rodolei [Domesday]
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Scene Description: the original base was replaced by these five colonnettes of Victorian taste in the 19th century
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/rothley-church-st-mary-and-st-john/] [accessed 24 August 2015]
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Scene Description: the base seen here was replaced in the Victorian period by five modern colonnettes
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Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)
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design element - motifs - chevron or lozenge
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/rothley-church-st-mary-and-st-john/] [accessed 24 August 2015]
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design element - motifs - ball
Scene Description: at the centre of the patterns created around the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/rothley-church-st-mary-and-st-john/] [accessed 24 August 2015]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/rothley-church-st-mary-and-st-john/] [accessed 24 August 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/rothley-church-st-mary-and-st-john/] [accessed 24 August 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/rothley-church-st-mary-and-st-john/] [accessed 24 August 2015]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 03429ROT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: decorated like the fonts at Hungarton and Peckleton, in Leics., and Great Casterton, in nearby Rutland
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin and St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin & St. John the Baptist
Church Address: 9 Church Street, Rothley, Leicestershire LE7 7PD
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A6, 12 km N of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Goscote
Additional Comments: altered font? (columns of the base are 19thC replacements of the original base)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Rothley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK5812/rothley/] [accessed 24 August 2015]; it mentions a priest, but not a church in it, though there probably was one here. A font here is noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). Paley (1844) found "its simplicity and singular character" very interesting; he also identified the base as modern and mentioned the lack of drainage and lining in it. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Norman period, with "an effective but simple chevron pattern covering the whole of the bowl". Tyrrell-Green (1928) describes it as a tub-shaped basin that "may also be considered as receiving its adornment which covers its whole surface, by an application of zigzag on a large scale." Noted in Pevsner (1984): "Font. Norman, circular, of drum shape, with an all-over pattern of large concentric lozenges (cf. Peckleton)." Ancient cylindrical basin has dense chevron pattern ornamentation all around, with ball motifs in its centres; raised now on five Victorian columns.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 626037 5841471
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.708444, -1.134393
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 42′ 30.4″ N, 1° 8′ 3.82″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: no drainage system
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 7.5 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 48.75 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 63.75 cm*
Basin Depth: 29.5 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 50 cm* (modern base excluded)
Notes on Measurements: * Paley (1844: unpaged)
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 205, 206
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 19 fn et al.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984, p. 364, 472
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 24, 80
- Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818, [vol. III, part II, p. 520 and pl. cxxx / [http://books.google.com/books?id=gLwuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA228&lpg=PA228&dq=upcott+1818&source=web&ots=lJwT-K00zU&sig=oVT6Kc6G03vqjYf4Synuk_Aek9w#PPP15,M1] [accessed 30 September 2007]