Snitterfield / Snitefeld / Snitefelde / Snitenesfeld
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view of font and cover
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Warwickshire County Council, 2006
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1938 in the Libraries Heritage and Trading Standards, Warwickshire County Council [Donor Ref: ' PH, 125/4, img: 10014 (3/9118)'] [www.search.windowsonwarwickshire.org.uk] [accessed 2 February 2015]
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design element - motifs - moulding
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human figure - head - 8
Scene Description: one at each angle of the underbowl; all different; some wearing head-dress
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2009 by Aidan McRae Thomson [http://www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/4477652110/in/pool-1222982@N22/]
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design element - motifs - moulding
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2009 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/4478994681/in/photostream/] [accessed 2 February 2015]
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view of church exterior - west view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2009 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/4476878318/in/photostream/] [accessed 2 February 2015]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: engraving in Notices of the churches of Warwickshire (vol. 2, 1858)
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2009 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/4476101941/in/photostream/] [accessed 2 February 2015]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05569SNI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (early?), Decorated
Cognate Fonts: Wootton Waven, Lapworth, Aston-Catlow and Weston-under-Weatherley, all in Warwickshire
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James the Great
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James
Church Address: 5 Church Road, Snitterfield, Warwickshire CV37 0LG
Site Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located about 8 km WSW of Warwick, just W of the A46
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry
Historical Region: Hundred of Fernecombe [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Barlishway
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Sitterfield [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP2160/snitterfield/] [accessed 25 November 2014]; it reports a priest but not a church in it, though there probably was one there. The entry for this parish in Notices of the churches of Warwickshire (vol. 2, 1858) notes: "At the time of the Norman Conquest it had a church [...] The Church was given by Hugh de Hatton, in the reign of Stephen [i.e., 1135-1154], to the Prior and Canons of St. Sepulchre's in Warwick [...] Although there was a Church here existing at the time of the compilation of Domesday book no part of the present structure is of greater antiquity than the fourteenth century. [...] Font. This consists of a plain octagonal shaped basin, moulded round the ledge and bottom, resting on a plain octagonal shaft, with a rudely sculptured head at each angle; one of which represents that of a Bishop in his mitre; another that of a man in his caputium or hood. This font is apparently of the fourteenth century." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the late Decorated period. Described in Bond (1908) as one of several baptismal fonts of the 14th century with a design characteristic of the region of Warwickshire: the fonts are polygonal -usually octagonal- mounted and have "corbelled heads projecting from the base of the bowl".
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.23812, -1.681303
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 14′ 17.23″ N, 1° 40′ 52.69″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain; modern
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 233, 240
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 224
- Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society. Architectural Committee, Notices of the churches of Warwickshire, Rivington, London; [etc.]: Henry T. Cooke, 1847-, vol. 2: 82-90