Chadshunt / Cedeleshunte / Chadsunt

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches - columns with capitals

Image Source: detail of a digital phtograph taken 26 July 2008 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/4379308697/] [accessed 5 January 2015]

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design element - motifs - diaper

Scene Description: a row of large ones, all around the upper rim (several are broken); there appear to be other different motifs but they are now damaged and unidentifiable

Image Source: detail of a digital phtograph taken 26 July 2008 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/4379308697/] [accessed 5 January 2015]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: the thicker roll moulding seen here at the bottom appears to be a water-catching one

Image Source: detail of a digital phtograph taken 26 July 2008 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/4379308697/] [accessed 5 January 2015]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: there are several small ones at the top of the base and the bottom of the basin, but one very pronounced halfway down the base side

Image Source: detail of a digital phtograph taken 26 July 2008 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/4379308697/] [accessed 5 January 2015]

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view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: showing the old tattered lead lining

Image Source: photograph by Harry Sunley in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/914/] [accessed 5 January 2015]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital phtograph taken 26 July 2008 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/4379308697/] [accessed 5 January 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the old font is visible in the foreground [west end], centre aisle

Image Source: digital phtograph taken 26 July 2008 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/4379821879/] [accessed 5 January 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the old font is visible in the background [west end], centre aisle

Image Source: digital phtograph taken 26 July 2008 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/4379818757/] [accessed 5 January 2015]

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view of font - southwest side

Image Source: digital phtograph taken 26 July 2008 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/4379308697/] [accessed 5 January 2015]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: in the centre aisle, towards the west end of the nave

Image Source: digital phtograph taken 26 July 2008 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/4379818757/] [accessed 5 January 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05502CHA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints [redundant]

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Off Watery Lane, Chadshunt, Kineton, Warwickshire, CV35 0EH

Country Name: England

Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located about 12 km ESE of Warwick, just W of the M40 from which it has access via Gaydon

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry

Historical Region: Hundred of Tremlowe [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Kington

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the centre aisle, towards the W end

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Aidan McRae Thomson of Warwickshire Churches [http://warwickshirechurches.weebly.com] for his photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: the VCH (ibid.) has: "Dugdale states that a well and oratory dedicated to St. Chad, and standing near the church, were certified to have an annual income of 16 marks in 6 Edward VI" [Dugdale, 1730?]

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There is an entry for Chadshunt [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP3452/chadshunt/] [accessed 5 January 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The font here is described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a shallow Norman basin ornamented with a blind arcade of round intersecting arches; the base is described as "elaborate early Gothic". The basin has suffered damage to the upper rim [on which some ornamental motif that includes perhaps human heads can be seen] and does not match the base in size either; it looks as if the base was meant for a much larger object. [NB: Bond spells the name of this location "Chadsunt" in both the text and the caption, and does not list it in the index locorum under either spelling]. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 5, 1949) notes: "The advowsons of the churches of Chadshunt and Bishop's Itchington were early attached as prebendal benefices to the precentorship of Lichfield Cathedral. When, in 1155–9, [...] Walter Duredent collated himself to the Prebend of Chadshunt and Itchington, mention is made of the fact that the previous holder, William de Vilers, was Precentor of the Cathedral [...] The nave is of mid-12th-century origin and retains the original north and south doorways [...] The font has a 12th-century round bowl; the sides are carved with an interlacing arcade and the moulded top edge is enriched with a kind of dog-tooth ornament. The base-mould of the bowl is of three cable-beads. The base has a 13th-century 'hold-water' mould and it is set on a sub-base which has a plain round mould above a splay." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2015) as a font that "clearly belongs in the 13thc. (dogtooth, multiple moulded plinth) but is included as a late example of a common form of 12thc. arcaded decoration". The basin is lead-lined. Noted with a photograph in FLICKR from Oxfordshire Church Illustrations [http://flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos/278334269/] [accessed 2 August 2007]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.1744, -1.4906

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 10′ 27.84″ N, 1° 29′ 26.16″ W

UTM: 30U 603215 5781510

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: two?

Font Shape: cauldron-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

Diameter (inside rim): 55 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 101 cm* [includes lower base]

Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2015)

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-01-05 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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

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. Accessed: 2003-07-11 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.