Orchardleigh

Results: 7 records

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B01: Virgin Mary - Madonna and Christ-child

Scene Description: On the west side of the basin

B02: Virgin Mary - Madonna and Christ-child

Scene Description: On the east side of the basin

B03: Christ - Christ in Majesty - with orb - right hand raised in benediction

Scene Description: On the south side of the basin

Image Source: engraving by O. Jewitt, in Paley (1844)

Copyright Instructions: PD

B04: human figure - head - vegetation stemming from the mouth - 4

Scene Description: Four, each between the four windows in a band about the middle of the basin

Image Source: engraving by O. Jewitt, in Paley (1844)

Copyright Instructions: PD

BBL01: design element - motifs - vine - grape

Scene Description: All around the lower rim of the basin side

Image Source: engraving by O. Jewitt, in Paley (1844)

Copyright Instructions: PD

BBU01: design element - motifs - vine - grape

Scene Description: A band all around the upper end of the basin side

Image Source: engraving by O. Jewitt, in Paley (1844)

Copyright Instructions: PD

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Scene Description: south side -- Image source: engraving by Orlando Jewitt, in Paley (1844)

Image Source: engraving by O. Jewitt, in Paley (1844)

Copyright Instructions: PD

INFORMATION

FontID: 03461ORC

Church/Chapel: Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Orchardleigh, Frome, BA11 2PH United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Somerset, South West

Directions to Site: Located near Frome, Beckington, Berkely, etc., 15-16 km SSE of Bath

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in Paley (1844) as a chalice-shaped font "very uncommon in form and design", which "appears to be of the fourteenth century". Brandon (1849) lists among the Decorated fonts. Noted in the Handbook for travellers… (1869). Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as "a beautiful and uncommon example of advanced 14th-cent. work". Wade & Wade (1929) report "a carved, cup-shaped font" in this church. Described in Pevsner (1958): "Early C14, circular with lief friezes and small seated figures in sexfoils." The round basin has three horizontal bands of ornamentation: at the upper rim, a grapevine with bunches of grapes; at about the middle of the basin another band, with four human heads with vegetation stemming from their mouths; this band is interrupted at each cardinal point by a high-relief quatrefoil window: on the south side, a Majestas Domini; on the east and west, Madonna and Child representations; the window on the north side is blank [Paley's identification (ibid.)] The lower band has, like the upper, a grapevine, but in a smaller scale. The underbowl is plain and chamfered. The stem of the base and the base itself are plain, the latter having two rounded mouldings. The short plinth is square..

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.2578, -2.3259

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 15′ 28.08″ N, 2° 19′ 33.24″ W

UTM: 30U 547038 5678710

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, unknown

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 7 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 55 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 68.5 cm

Basin Depth: 30 cm

Basin Total Height: 58 cm

Height of Base: 35 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 93 cm

Notes on Measurements: Paley (1844: unpaged)

REFERENCES

Borg, Raine, Smålands medeltida dopfuntar, Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2002

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

Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire, London: John Murray, 1869

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Somerset and Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958

Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929