Orchardleigh

Results: 7 records

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

On the south side of the basin
Scene Description: On the south side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving by O. Jewitt, in Paley (1844)
Copyright Instructions: PD

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

Four, each between the four windows in a band about the middle of the basin
Scene Description: Four, each between the four windows in a band about the middle of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving by O. Jewitt, in Paley (1844)
Copyright Instructions: PD

BBL01: design element - motifs - vine - grape

All around the lower rim of the basin side
Scene Description: All around the lower rim of the basin side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving by O. Jewitt, in Paley (1844)
Copyright Instructions: PD

BBU01: design element - motifs - vine - grape

A band all around the upper end of the basin side
Scene Description: A band all around the upper end of the basin side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving by O. Jewitt, in Paley (1844)
Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font

south side -- Image source: engraving by Orlando Jewitt, in Paley (1844)
Scene Description: south side -- Image source: engraving by Orlando Jewitt, in Paley (1844)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving by O. Jewitt, in Paley (1844)
Copyright Instructions: PD

INFORMATION

Font ID: 03461ORC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (early?), Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Orchardleigh, Frome, BA11 2PH United Kingdom
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near Frome, Beckington, Berkely, etc., 15-16 km SSE of Bath
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

UTM: 30U 547038 5678710
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.2578, -2.3259
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 15′ 28.08″ N, 2° 19′ 33.24″ W

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, p. 89
  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 216, 217
  • Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire, London: John Murray, 1869, p. 372 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=hYEOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA369&lpg=PA369&dq=hemyock+church+font&source=bl&ots=wV68KRXFhH&sig=_-CnLgSLeYKjq8YBQMsxSQrjbvA&hl=en&ei=1IKRSeTLOojKNO3c_YkM&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPR1,M1] [accessed 10 February 2009]
  • Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, unpaged
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Somerset and Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 241
  • Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 30 March 2008]