Edgmond / Edgmund / Edmendune / Egemon / Egmundon-cum-Novo Burgo / Egmendon-cum-Novo-Burgo
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Image Source: photograph taken 13 February 1986 by Tim Marlow
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image Source: photograph taken 13 February 1986 by Tim Marlow
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tim Marlow, 2014
Image Source: photograph taken 13 February 1986 by Tim Marlow
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Image Source: photograph taken 13 February 1986 by Tim Marlow
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Scene Description: the rendering of this drawing made the font look barrel-shaped, which it is not; the two step octagonal plinth is now gont and replaced by a plain round one
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Image Source: engraving, probably from a drawing by J. Roberts, in Anderson (1864)
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design element - motifs - geometric - varied
Scene Description: several patterns of it
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Image Source: detail from an edited photograph taken 13 February 1986 by Tim Marlow
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image Source: detail from an edited photograph taken 13 February 1986 by Tim Marlow
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design element - motifs - vine
Scene Description: a short one, with chevron-like ondulations, and only a few leaves
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Image Source: detail from an edited photograph taken 13 February 1986 by Tim Marlow
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design element - motifs - interlace
Scene Description: rather angular on the left but more rounded on the right
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Image Source: detail from an edited photograph taken 13 February 1986 by Tim Marlow
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design element - motifs - interlace
Scene Description: notice the stylised rhomboid shape inscribed in the upper loop
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Image Source: detail from an edited photograph taken 13 February 1986 by Tim Marlow
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Law, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2009 by Richard Law [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1469463] [accessed 7 February 2013]
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Scene Description: clearly desgined to discourage sitting on it
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image Source: detail from an edited photograph taken 13 February 1986 by Tim Marlow
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05245EDG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 10th - 12th century [basin only?], Pre-Conquest? / Norman? [altered]
Cognate Fonts: the font at Deerhurst? [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: High Street, Edgmond, Shropshire, TF10 8JW
Site Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 3 km W of Newport, about 12 km N of Telford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lichfield
Historical Region: Hundred Wrockwardine [în Domesday] -- Hundred of South Bradford -- Salop
Additional Comments: "sampler" font? (one of a design not uncommon throughout the ages, fonts which decoration seemed to be a sampling of the abilities if the master or workshop that produced it.)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Edgmond [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SJ7219/edgmond/] [accessed 2 November 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The font here is illustrated in Eyton (1859- ), who states: "There is no proof that this was a Saxon foundation", but, Eyton adds, its chapel must have been founded within eight years of Domesday [1086] because Roger of Montgomery gave it to Shrewsbury Abbey at that time [Roger de Montgomerie (d.1094) was a counsellor of William the Conqueror]. Illustrated in Anderson (1864), who suggests the church was "founded apparently by Earl Roger de Montgomery" [NB: the engravings in Eyton and Anderson are the same, probably a drawing by J. Roberts]. Romilly Allen (1888) states that a baptismal font similar in shape and ornamentation to the font at Deerhurst [cf. Index entry] "exists at Edgmund". Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Norman period. Bond (1908) describes the baptismal font at Edgmond [like Romilly Allen, Bond uses the spelling "Edgmund"] as one of the few he is willing to concede a pre-Conquest date "on account of the character of the ornamental features". As Bond comments in the case of another such font, "it certainly seems improbable that any Norman craftsman could have produced work so characteristically Pre-Conquest as that of the font at Deerhurst, nor even if he could, is it likely that he would have cared to do so" (ibid.) Newman & Pevsner (2006) write: "Font. Early Norman, presumably before 1122. Thub-shaped, with a big E[ast] panel of unsystematic loose interlace and bands of geometrical motifs elsewhere." The font is one of a design not uncommon throughout the ages, fonts which decoration seemed to be a sampling of the abilities if the master or workshop that produced it.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 539393 5846901
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.7705, -2.4161
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 46′ 13.8″ N, 2° 24′ 57.96″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, unmounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration and nails point-up to prevent sitting on it
REFERENCES
- Allen, J. Romilly, "On the Antiquity of Fonts in Great Britain", XLIV, Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 1888, pp. 164-173; p. 171, 173
- Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864, p. 121 and pl. 122
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 127
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 215
- Eyton, Robert William, The Antiquities of Shropshire, London: John Russell Smith, 1856-, vol. 9: pl. between pp. 126-127
- Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006, p. 259
- Rickman, Thomas, An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of Architecture in England, from the Conquest to the Reformation, with a Sketch of the Grecian and Roman Orders, An [7th ed. -- orig. published in 1817], Oxford and London: Parker and Co., 1881, p. 147