Stoke Golding

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B01: coat of arms

Scene Description: Side 1 (west side) of the basin (cf. Font notes for details)

B02: cleric - bishop - wearing mitre - with staff - right hand raised in benediction

Scene Description: Side 2 (south-west) of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph by Colin Hyde, 2006 [East Midlands Oral History Archive [www.le.ac.uk/emoha]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 15 January 2007)

B03: Apostle or saint - St. Margaret of Antioch - with dragon - with book - with staff - with child

Scene Description: Side 3 (south side) of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph by Colin Hyde, 2006 [East Midlands Oral History Archive [www.le.ac.uk/emoha]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 15 January 2007)

B04: Apostle or saint - St. Catherine of Alexandria - with wheel and sword

Scene Description: Side 4 (south-east)of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph by Colin Hyde, 2006 [East Midlands Oral History Archive [www.le.ac.uk/emoha]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 15 January 2007)

B05: blank

Scene Description: Side 5 (east side) of the basin, "abuts against the westernmost pillar of the nave" (Paley, 1844, unpaged)

Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)

Copyright Instructions: PD

B06: design element - architectural - tracery - window tracery

Scene Description: Side 6 (north-east) of the basin (cf. font notes for details)

B07: coat of arms

Scene Description: Side 7 (north side) of the basin (cf. font notes for details)

B08: design element - architectural - tracery - window tracery

Scene Description: Side 8 (north-west) of the basin (cf. font notes for details)

design element - architectural - arcade - Ogee arches

Scene Description: One on each side of the octagonal basin, each slightly different, housing a scene, figure or motif

Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 April 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4939229] [accessed 3 February 2019]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 April 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/387593] [accessed 3 February 2019]

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view of font

Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font and cover

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Colin Hyde, 2006 [East Midlands Oral History Archive [www.le.ac.uk/emoha]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 15 January 2007)

view of font and cover

Scene Description: decoration on the underbowl chamfer appears to have been scraped off

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 April 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/387595] [accessed 3 February 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03448STO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret of Antioch

Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]

Church Location: Stoke Golding, Nuneaton CV13 6HD, UK -- Tel.: (01455) 213988

Country Name: England

Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (NE) the A5-A444 crossroads, 5 km NW of Hinkley, 7 km NE of Nuneaton, 20 km SW of Leicester, just E of the Ashby de la Zouch canal

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester

Historical Region: Hundred of Coleshill

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: ca. 1340-1350?

Century and Period: 14th century (mid?), Decorated

Cognate Fonts: The font at Bakewell (Derby.), although of a different design, has similar ornamentation on its basin sides

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hyde, of the East Midlands Oral History Archive [www.le.ac.uk/emoha] for his photograph of this font.

Church Notes: "The Church is a noble specimen of Decorated work" (Paley, 1844: unpaged)

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No individual entry found for Stoke Golding in the Domesday survey. A font here is described and illustrated in Paley (1844). Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Decorated period. Tyrrell-Green (1928) notes that its iconographical program is quite similar to the one on the font at Bakewell, in Derbyshire. Noted in Pevsner (1984): "Font. Dec[orated], primitive standing figures against the bowl: St Margaret and the kneeling donor, St Catherine, a Bishop. Also tracery panels." Octagonal mounted font in the Decorated style of the 14th century. Each side of the octagonal basin has a slightly different Gothic arch containing (L->R): 1)west side: a shield with coat of arms "charged with a chevron between four quatrefoils and with plain shields in the spandrels" (Paley, 1844); 2)bishop wearing mitre, right hand raised in benediction, left hand holding staff; 3)south side: St. Margaret holding a book on her right hand and a crossed staff on her left, trampling the dragon, and with a kneeling child to her left; 4)St. Catherine holding the wheel in her right hand and the sword in her left; 5)east side: plain; 6)tracery window; 7)north side: shield like the one on the west side but "charged with etoiles instead of quatrefoils" (ibid.); 8)tracery window. The base is carved to resemble eight constructional columns on a square lower volume. There is a two-step plinth. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SP3977697265] notes: "An early C13 church was refashioned and enlarged between Circa 1290 and Circa 1340. [...] No structural division between nave and chancel. 4-bay nave arcade of Circa 1290; the piers have filleted multiple shafting and richly carved capitals with naturalistic foliage, oak leaves being much in evidence; 2 capitals incorporate heads including a knight and ladies wearing wimples. [...] Octagonal font of Circa 1340-50 on shafted base; panels around the sides of the basin depict window tracery, which dates the piece, and standing figures including St. Margaret, the donor, St. Katherine and a bishop."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.57176, -1.4147

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 34′ 18.34″ N, 1° 24′ 52.92″ W

UTM: 30U 607436 5825815

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Rim Thickness: 11 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 60 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 82.5 cm

Basin Depth: 30 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm

Notes on Measurements: Paley (1844: unpaged)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat, with large acorn finial

REFERENCES

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

Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984

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