Lowdham / Ludham

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - head - 8

Scene Description: they fserve as capitals to the colonnettes of the base

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 18 April 1982 by Timothy Marlow

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design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches - 8 - pointed - gabled - crocketed

Scene Description: richly decorated

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 18 April 1982 by Timothy Marlow

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: at the bases of the colonnettes of the base

Image Source: photograph taken 18 April 1982 by Timothy Marlow

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human figure - head - 8

Scene Description: one at the bottom of the arch-end corresponding to each of the basin sides; each one differemt from the others

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 18 April 1982 by Timothy Marlow

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view of church exterior - south porch

Scene Description: Source caption: "Lowdham Church, south porch. Note the fine pair of wooden gates with panel decoration, possible 18th century."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 October 2008 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1011889] [accessed 17 November 2014]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: [...] According to the Rev. A.M.Y. Baylay (in 1908) the oldest part of this church is its late C12th (or early 13th) stone tower, which may well have stood clear of the original medieval church that was probably of timber. The whole of the tower is said to be of one date with the spire being a later addition dating from the C14th or C15th. The church itself evolved through C13th, C14th and C15th and was restored in 1860. The spire it seems was substantially repaired in 1883 and the chancel was restored in 1890. [...]"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 February 2014 by David Hallam-Jones [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3866944] [accessed 17 November 2014]

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view of font

Image Source: B&W photograph in Bond (1908)

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view of font

Image Source: photograph taken 18 April 1982 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

INFORMATION

FontID: 05464LOW

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Church Lane, Lowdham, Unknown, NG14 7BQ

Country Name: England

Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located about 15 km NE of Nottingham, on the A6097, at the junction with the A612

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham

Historical Region: Hundred of Thurgarton

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: ca. 1290?

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Decorated

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Timothy Marlow for his photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Lowdham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SK6646/lowdham/] [accessed 17 November 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a baptismal font of a type "which appeared late in the thirteenth century, was a straight-sided pediment, richly crocketed and cusped, and crowned with a foliated finial"; this font is one of a few of this type and period that has retained a multiple-column base: a broad central shaft and eight slender colonnettes, one at each angle of the basin, all plain at the stems but with foliated capitals and moulded bases. The upper rim of the font shows two iron brackets or staples installed to secure the lid. The font is also reported in Baylay (1908), in Cox (1912) and in Guilford (1927). Cox (ibid.) describes it as a good font of the 14th century, raised on a "central shaft and 8 smaller ones, 38 in. high, 34 in. in diameter." In Pevsner & Williamson (1979): "Of c.1300, and the best font of its date in the county, octagonal, with richly crocketed gables starting from human faces or animals: no doubt by a minor mason from the Southwell chapter house team".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.014328, -1.014406

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 0′ 51.58″ N, 1° 0′ 51.86″ W

UTM: 30U 633203 5875708

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Diameter (includes rim): 85 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 95 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in Cox (1912)]

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [two iron brackets/staples still visible on its upper rim]

REFERENCES

Baylay, Atwell M.Y., "Summer excursion 1908: Lowdham Church and Lowdham Hall", 12 (1908), Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 1908

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912

Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979