Holt nr. Wrexham
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angel - demi-figure - holding book - open book
Scene Description: seen here in the centre panel
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 February 2017 by Llywelyn2000 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bedyddfaen_Font_at_St_Chad_A_Grade_I_Listed_Building_in_Holt,_Wrexham,_Wales_06.jpg] [accessed 26 January 2020]
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angel - demi-figure - holding book - open book
Scene Description: seen here in the centre panel, with wild hair and open wings
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 February 2017 by Llywelyn2000 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bedyddfaen_Font_at_St_Chad_A_Grade_I_Listed_Building_in_Holt,_Wrexham,_Wales_22.jpg] [accessed 26 January 2020]
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animal - mammal - dog
Scene Description: wearing a collar; seated dather than rampant; facing right
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 February 2017 by Llywelyn2000 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bedyddfaen_Font_at_St_Chad_A_Grade_I_Listed_Building_in_Holt,_Wrexham,_Wales_10.jpg] [accessed 26 January 2020]
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animal - mammal - lion - passant-gardant
Scene Description: passant to the left, in one of the panels of the underbowl
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 February 2017 by Llywelyn2000 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bedyddfaen_Font_at_St_Chad_A_Grade_I_Listed_Building_in_Holt,_Wrexham,_Wales_05.jpg] [accessed 26 January 2020]
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animal - mammal - quadruped - passant-gardant
Scene Description: in the centre panel; much damaged; appears feline, with the raised tail over the rump, usually present in the carvings of medieval lions
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 February 2017 by Llywelyn2000 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bedyddfaen_Font_at_St_Chad_A_Grade_I_Listed_Building_in_Holt,_Wrexham,_Wales_19.jpg] [accessed 26 January 2020]
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animal - mammal - quadruped - rabbit or hare?
Scene Description: tail and paws appear rabbit like; the face is damaged
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 February 2017 by Llywelyn2000 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bedyddfaen_Font_at_St_Chad_A_Grade_I_Listed_Building_in_Holt,_Wrexham,_Wales_11.jpg] [accessed 26 January 2020]
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animal - mammal - stag - head
Scene Description: the stag head is associated with the Stanley family
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 2 July 2017 by Llywelyn2000 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Chad's_Church,_Holt,_Wrexham,_Cymru,_Wales_36.jpg] [accessed 26 January 2020]
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coat of arms - De Warren [aka De Warenne]
Scene Description: a shield of arms: chequy
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 2 July 2017 by Llywelyn2000 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Chad's_Church,_Holt,_Wrexham,_Cymru,_Wales_37.jpg] [accessed 26 January 2020]
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coat of arms - Royal Arms of England
Scene Description: in the bottom area of the panel: "Gules, three lions passant guardant in pale or armed and langued azure"
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 February 2017 by Llywelyn2000 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bedyddfaen_Font_at_St_Chad_A_Grade_I_Listed_Building_in_Holt,_Wrexham,_Wales_04.jpg] [accessed 26 January 2020]
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coat of arms - unidentified
Scene Description: several other shields related to the history of the lordship of Bromfield and families related to the De Warren
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 February 2017 by Llywelyn2000 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bedyddfaen_Font_at_St_Chad_A_Grade_I_Listed_Building_in_Holt,_Wrexham,_Wales_07.jpg] [accessed 26 January 2020]
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design element - motifs - floral - rose - in a quatrefoil - in a circle
Scene Description: seen here on the left
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 February 2017 by Llywelyn2000 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bedyddfaen_Font_at_St_Chad_A_Grade_I_Listed_Building_in_Holt,_Wrexham,_Wales_21.jpg] [accessed 26 January 2020]
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design element - motifs - leaf - cluster
Scene Description: seen here in the centre panel
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design element - motifs - leaf - cluster
Scene Description: seen here in the centre panel
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 February 2017 by Llywelyn2000 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bedyddfaen_Font_at_St_Chad_A_Grade_I_Listed_Building_in_Holt,_Wrexham,_Wales_21.jpg] [accessed 26 January 2020]
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design element - motifs - leaf - cluster
Scene Description: seen here on the right
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design element - motifs - leaf - oak - cluster
Scene Description: seen here on the left
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 February 2017 by Llywelyn2000 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bedyddfaen_Font_at_St_Chad_A_Grade_I_Listed_Building_in_Holt,_Wrexham,_Wales_19.jpg] [accessed 26 January 2020]
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human figure - demi-figure - holfing object
Scene Description: the panel is much damaged now; there appears to be a human demi-figure framed atop by a pounted arch, with foliage in the spandrels; the figure appears to be holding an object, the fingers of both hands clearly visible
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 February 2017 by Llywelyn2000 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bedyddfaen_Font_at_St_Chad_A_Grade_I_Listed_Building_in_Holt,_Wrexham,_Wales_16.jpg] [accessed 26 January 2020]
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human figure - head
Scene Description: female? wering a small cross at the neck
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human figure - male - crowned
Scene Description: unfortunately much damaged and eroded
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human figure - male - head - bearded
Scene Description: long braids and recessed hairline, looking almost grotesque or very distressed
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 5 February 2017 by Llywelyn2000 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Chad's_Church,_Holt,_Wrexham,_Cymru,_Wales_171.jpg] [accessed 26 January 2020]
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church interior - looking east
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: the font is partially visible on the left side of the image
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
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view of font and cover - east side
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view of font and cover - southeast side
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the late-medieval font in its context
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INFORMATION
FontID: 04432HOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Chad / Eglwys Sant Chad
Church Patron Saints: St. Chad [aka, Ceaadda, Cedd, Ceoddi]
Church Location: 6 Bridge St, Holt, Wrexham LL13 9JP, UK -- Tel.: +44 1928 569411
Country Name: Wales
Location: Wrexham
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B5102, N of the A534, on the W bank of the Dee river, about 8 km ENE of Wrexham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Asaph
Historical Region: formerly Denbighshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1493?
Century and Period: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as an octagonal mounted baptismal font of the Perpendicular period; the panels of the basin are ornamented with shields bearing "the arms of de Warren, with those of related families and the shield of England"; foliage and other motifs on the chamfer and on the stem of the base. Plain lower base. Described in Hubbard (1986): "each face of the bowl, the stem and the coving is carved in boldly scaled relief. Datable to c. 1493 by the heraldry, which refers to the history of the lordship of Bromfield over two centuries." Described and illustrated in Crossley (1941) where it shows that the main shields appear around the basin, while the chamfer of the underbowl has carvings of human figures and animals; the sten has either a large foliage motif or a human figure holding a shield on its sides. Described and illustrated by Peter Lord, in Diwylliant... (1998-2003), who uses this font to illustrate patronage and the vagaries of power: "Sir William Stanley, who rose under Edward IVand maintained his position under Henry VII by playing a crucial military role at Bosworth Field, remodelled the Church of St Chad at Holt in Denbighshire. He encrusted the font with heraldic devices illustrating the history of the lordship of Bromfield, which he had held from 1843. When newly coloured it must have been an extraordinary sight, even by the riotous chromatic standards of the day, but Stanley had little time to enjoy the fruits of his munificence. Twelve years later he was executed for treason by the king he had helped to bring to power". Lord (ibid., fn4) informs that "Sir William Stanley was accused of involvement in the uprising of Perkin Warbeck". The font stands on a modern polygonal plinth. Wooden cover, round, flat and plain; modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.0809, -2.8791
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 4′ 51.24″ N, 2° 52′ 44.76″ W
UTM: 30U 508098 5881277
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Font Height (with Plinth): 124 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Lord, in Diwylliant... (1998-2003, vol. 3: 226)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain, with ringa handle; modern
REFERENCES
The Visual Culture of Wales = Diwylliant gweledol Cymru, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998-2003
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
Hubbard, Edward, Clwyd (Denbigshire and Flintshire), London: Penguin Books; University of Wales Press, 1986
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928