Wootton Wawen / Wawens Wotton / Wootten Waven / Wootten Waven / Wotone

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Scene Description: at the lower edge of the basin

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human figure - head - 8

Scene Description: each at one of the angles of the basin underside

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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05434WOO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Stratford Road, Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire B95 6BD
Country Name: England
Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 13-15 km E of Redditch, on the A3400, 20 km from Stratford-upon-Avon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry
Historical Region: Hundred of Pathlow [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Barlichway
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 14th century (late)?, Decorated
Cognate Fonts: The basin is similar to the one at Lapworth, but their bases are quite different; another font with a row of heads under the basin at Saltford, in Somerset
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, and to Timothy Marlow, for their photographs of church and font
There is an entry for Wootton [Waven] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP1563/wootton-wawen/] [accessed 27 November 2014]; it reports a priest but not a church in it, though there probably was one there. Notices of the churches of Warwickshire (vol. 1, 1847) notes: "The Church, with an endowment of land in the parish, was given by Robert de Tonei, alias Stafford, to the Abbey of Saint Peter at Conches, or Castellion, in Normandy, shortly after the Conquest [...] The font stands in the nave against one of the piers, and not far from the south door; it consists of a plain octagonal-shaped basin, the sides of which were probably intended to be covered with tracery or panel work, resting on eight sculptured hooded heads; externally it measures two feet eight inches in diameter, and one foot eleven inches high: the internal diameter of the basin is one foot eleven inches, and it is thirteen inches deep and lined with lead." Described in Cox & Harvey (1907): This "font, illustrated in 'Churches of Warwickshire' (1847), is difficult to date, but probably from the base mouldings temp. Richard II" [i.e., 1377-1399], of the late Decorated period, "a plain octagonal bason resting on eight sculptured heads". Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as an octagonal baptismal font of the 14th century; the basin sides are plain but for a few mouldings at the upper rim side and at the lower basin edge; right below it "has corbelled heads projecting from the base of the bowl" (ibid.) Unlike the font at Lapworth, the base here is just a plain squat octagonal block; the whole is raised on a wide plinth. Bond (ibid.) quotes a comment from his source, F.T.S. Houghton: "The mouldings of the font at Wootten Waven are rather peculiar, and are so shallow that, when compared with those at Lapworth, one suspects fifteenth century work". At the time of Bond's illustration [ca. 1908?] the font had a low-dome lid held up by a chain [counterweight?], as can be seen at present August 2007] in a photograph in Flicker, with original from Oxfordshire Church Illustrations [http://flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos/265108048/] [accessed 3 August 2007]. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 3, 1945) notes: "The lower three-fifths of the tower is probably of the first half of the 11th century; as it has an archway in each wall there is little doubt that the original plan of the church was cross-shaped. The nave was rebuilt and probably enlarged in the 12th century. The present chancel walls may be of mid to late 13th century [...] The font has a bowl of the 14th century: it is octagonal with a small moulding to the top edge and a lower projecting moulding and 6½ in. hollow chamfer in which, carved at each angle, is the projecting head of a man; four at least appear to be military with mail coifs, the others are civilians, one with long hair. The bowl is 2 ft. 6 in. high; there is no stem. The chamfered base is probably later. The font has an 18th-century moulded and flat lid." [NB: earlier photographs of the font cover showed the cover attached to a pulley; a later photograph of 2012 shows no atachment to the cover].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.267468, -1.776927
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 16′ 2.89″ N, 1° 46′ 36.94″ W
UTM: 30U 583343 5791410

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Rim Thickness: 11.25 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 57.5 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 80 cm*
Basin Depth: 32.5 cm*
Basin Total Height: 32.5 cm* / 45 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * in ft/in in Notices of the churches of Warwickshire (vol. 1, 1847)] / ** in ft/in in the VCH (vol. 3, 1945)

LID INFORMATION

Date: 18th century?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: yes; counterweight?
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2014-11-27 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society. Architectural Committee, Notices of the churches of Warwickshire, Rivington, London; [etc.]: Henry T. Cooke, 1847-