Checkley / Cedla
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Image Source: illustration in Andre (1883, pl. 19)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The William Salt Library, Stafford, 2004
Image Source: Drawing [1826] by John Chesshall Buckler, in the William Salt Library, Stafford -- Image copyright © William Salt Library Photograph [ca. 1950-1955] -- courtesy of the Staffordshire Past Track, Staffordshire Arts and Museum Service [for copyright details and conditions of use refer to www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/copyright.asp]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 6 January 2005)
design element - patterns - reticular
Scene Description: all around except at the front
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The William Salt Library, Stafford, 2004
Image Source: Drawing [1826] by John Chesshall Buckler, in the William Salt Library, Stafford -- Image copyright © William Salt Library Photograph [ca. 1950-1955] -- courtesy of the Staffordshire Past Track, Staffordshire Arts and Museum Service [for copyright details and conditions of use refer to www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/copyright.asp]
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design element - motifs - rectangle
Scene Description: under the animal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The William Salt Library, Stafford, 2004
Image Source: Drawing [1826] by John Chesshall Buckler, in the William Salt Library, Stafford -- Image copyright © William Salt Library Photograph [ca. 1950-1955] -- courtesy of the Staffordshire Past Track, Staffordshire Arts and Museum Service [for copyright details and conditions of use refer to www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/copyright.asp]
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design element - architectural - column - 2
Scene Description: one to each side of the animal at the front
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The William Salt Library, Stafford, 2004
Image Source: Drawing [1826] by John Chesshall Buckler, in the William Salt Library, Stafford -- Image copyright © William Salt Library Photograph [ca. 1950-1955] -- courtesy of the Staffordshire Past Track, Staffordshire Arts and Museum Service [for copyright details and conditions of use refer to www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/copyright.asp]
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animal - mammal - quadruped
Scene Description: a donkey or the Agnus Dei? [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The William Salt Library, Stafford, 2004
Image Source: Drawing [1826] by John Chesshall Buckler, in the William Salt Library, Stafford -- Image copyright © William Salt Library Photograph [ca. 1950-1955] -- courtesy of the Staffordshire Past Track, Staffordshire Arts and Museum Service [for copyright details and conditions of use refer to www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/copyright.asp]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken19 December 2005 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/94537] [accessed 4 May 2012]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The William Salt Library, Stafford, 2004
Image Source: Drawing [1826] by John Chesshall Buckler, in the William Salt Library, Stafford -- Image copyright © William Salt Library Photograph [ca. 1950-1955] -- courtesy of the Staffordshire Past Track, Staffordshire Arts and Museum Service [for copyright details and conditions of use refer to www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/copyright.asp]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © CRSBI, 2008
Image Source: photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-st-check.html] [accessed 4 May 2012]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tina Manthorpe, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 May 2009 by Tina Manthorpe [http://www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/3737937633/in/pool-oldfonts] [accessed 26 May 2010]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tina Manthorpe, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 May 2009 by Tina Manthorpe [http://www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/3737937629/in/pool-oldfonts] [accessed 26 May 2010]
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view of basin - east side - detail
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-st-check.html] [accessed 4 May 2012]
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view of basin - northeast side
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view of basin - northwest side
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view of basin - southeast side
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view of basin - southwest side
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view of basin - east side - detail
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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view of basin - east side
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05181CHE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary and All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, beneath the tower arch
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin & All Saints
Church Address: Church Lane, Checkley, Checkley, Staffordshire, ST10 4NJ
Site Location: Staffordshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6 km SSE of Cheadle, 18-20 kms ESE of Stoke-on-Trent (down the A50, then connect with the A522)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lichfield
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Checkley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [folio 250v]. Reported in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848: "a very handsome Saxon font". Romilly Allen (1884) notes: "On the font at Checkley, in Staffordshire, is what appears to be the Agnus Dei without nimbus or cross, standing on a square block or altar (?)". Illustrated in Andre (1883), vol. 24 of The Reliquary. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Norman period, that is "profusely ornamented, and bears the Agnus Dei and book". Listed in Bond (1908) as a font of the Norman period. In Pevsner (1974) as Norman; he reckons the animal on the east side of the basin is a donkey. Described briefly in Jenkins (2000): "a primitive Saxon tub with a donkey on its front panel". An illustration of this font is listed in an entry in the William Salt Library, Stafford [www.staffordshire.gov.uk/live/pdf/archives/fis-lei.pdf] under reference SV-III.83a (45-7935), a "sepia drawing" dated 1841, by 'J.C.B.' [John Chessell Buckley]: "'Font in Checkley Church, Staffordshire.' Showing a Norman font with a round shallow drum, with carving and tracery, on a drum-shaped pillar and round base." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008) with date in the 12th century and the comment: "On the font Christ is shown as a sacrificial lamb on an altar. The image is thus a eucharistic one in the view of the present author. This opinion is not universally accepted; Pevsner describes the font as 'Norman with coarse ornament and a donkey'."
The animal represented on the front (east) side of the basin is a quadruped; it stands on a rectangular black shape framed between columns; the decoration all around the basin side could perhaps be better described as trellis or reticular, rather than tracery; the stem on which it is raised is indeed round, and has a rope moulding around its middle; the lower base is also cylindrical but wider and plain.
The animal represented on the front (east) side of the basin is a quadruped; it stands on a rectangular black shape framed between columns; the decoration all around the basin side could perhaps be better described as trellis or reticular, rather than tracery; the stem on which it is raised is indeed round, and has a rope moulding around its middle; the lower base is also cylindrical but wider and plain.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Staffordshire Past Track, Staffordshire Arts and Museum Service, for their permission to reproduce their image.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 527790 5765842
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.042494, -2.594817
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 2′ 32.98″ N, 2° 35′ 41.34″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Rim Thickness: 13 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 47 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 73 cm*
Basin Total Height: 35 cm*
Height of Central Column: 50 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)]
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 167
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 217
- Jenkins, Simon, England's Thousand Best Churches, London and New York: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999 [2000 rev. printing], p. 629
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ec.uk/report.asp?compid=50868] [accessed 24 January 2007]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Staffordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975 c1974, p. 99