Rodney Stoke

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Results: 6 records

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B01: design element - patterns - ribbed - diagonal

Scene Description: all around the basin and underbowl

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 6 December 2006 by Tony Ethridge

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

BBU01: design element - architectural - arch-head - round

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 December 2006 by Tony Ethridge

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LB01: design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: at either end of the pedestal base

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 6 December 2006 by Tony Ethridge

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

LID01: design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: all around the lower vertical sides

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 6 December 2006 by Tony Ethridge

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font and cover at the west end of the nave

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 December 2006 by Tony Ethridge

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 December 2006 by Tony Ethridge

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 05535ROD

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard

Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard

Country Name: England

Location: Somerset, South West

Directions to Site: Located on the A371, 8 km WNW of Wells, 30-35 km SSW of Bristol

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, in the centre aisle

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

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photographs of this site

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 notes: "the late Mr. Rickman considered the date of the stone font to be about 1220" [NB: Lewis' reference must be to one of the early editions of Thomas Rickman's 'An attempt to discriminate the styles of English architecture...', the first of which appeared in 1817. Rickman was born in 1776 and died in 1841]. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Early English period. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908), though mostly in relation to the font cover. Wade & Wade (1929) report an "ancient font (late Norm[an]), with its cover". Pevsner (1958) notes the cover but not the font. The font itself is a hemispherical basin with twisted-rib pattern ornamentation around the basin sides, topped by a band or round arch-heads; the base is and octagonal pedestal with top and bottom mouldings, and appears later than the basin. The font cover is identified as Jacobean, of the pointed-cone type; the lower "crown" is octagonal with short vertical panels ornamented with foliage motifs; the poited part is really a pyramid, rather than a cone, with raised arrises and plant motifs on the panels; there is a pointed motif as finial.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: Jacobean

Material: wood,

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Friar, Stephen, The Sutton Companion to Churches, Thrupp, Stroud (Gloucs.): Sutton Publishing, 2003

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Somerset and Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958

Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929