Tysoe / Tiheshoche

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B01: Christ - Christ in Majesty

Scene Description: in an arch on the south side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 March 2014 by Rex Harris [www.flickr.com/photos/sheepdog_rex/13404113305/] [accessed 13 January 2015]

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B02: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Paul - with sword

Scene Description: in an arch on the southeast side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]

B03: Apostle or saint - St. Mary Magdalene - with vase

Scene Description: in the arch of the basin east side [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 March 2014 by Rex Harris [www.flickr.com/photos/sheepdog_rex/13404215663/] [accessed 13 January 2015]

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B04: angel - archangel - St. Michael - holding scales

Scene Description: in and arch on the northeast side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 March 2014 by Rex Harris [www.flickr.com/photos/sheepdog_rex/13404531124/] [accessed 13 January 2015]

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B05: Virgin Mary - Madonna and Christ-child - Virgin crowned

Scene Description: in an arch on the north side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (17 March 2006)

B06: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ

Scene Description: in an arch on the northwest side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: B&W June 1908. HEF. Lantern Slide. Shrewsbury Museums Service (SHYMS: P/2005/1276). Image sy10119 [www.darwincountry.org/explore/020159.html?sid=] [accessed 13 January 2015]

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B07: Apostle or saint - St. Catherine of Alexandria - with wheel and sword

Scene Description: in an arch on the west side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 March 2014 by Rex Harris [www.flickr.com/photos/sheepdog_rex/13404155215/] [accessed 13 January 2015]

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B08: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter - holding 2 keys and book

Scene Description: in an arch on the southwest side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]

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

Scene Description: each contains a figure

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

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design element - architectural - buttress - crocketed pinnacle - 8

Scene Description: one at each corner of the basin side

Image Source: B&W June 1908. HEF. Lantern Slide. Shrewsbury Museums Service (SHYMS: P/2005/1276). Image sy10119 [www.darwincountry.org/explore/020159.html?sid=] [accessed 13 January 2015]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: graded, all around the lower basin side or base

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (17 March 2006)

view of basin - detail

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in FLICKR [www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos] taken by Martin Beek on 5 July 2005

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view of font

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

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view of font

Image Source: B&W June 1908. HEF. Lantern Slide. Shrewsbury Museums Service (SHYMS: P/2005/1276). Image sy10119 [www.darwincountry.org/explore/020159.html?sid=] [accessed 13 January 2015]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (17 March 2006)

view of font and cover in context - east side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 March 2014 by Rex Harris [www.flickr.com/photos/sheepdog_rex/13404196893/] [accessed 13 January 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05659TYS

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary [aka St. Mary's]

Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary

Church Location: Saddledon Street, Tysoe, Warwickshire CV35 0SF

Country Name: England

Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: It is not clear which of the three Tysoes (Upper, Middle or Lower) this font belongs to. All three are located just S of the A422, halfway between Stratford-upon-Avon and Banbury

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry

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

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Decorated

Cognate Fonts: The font at Northampton, in the general shape and design, although it does not have the figures present at Tysoe

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of this font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for [Lower, Midddle and Upper] Tysoe [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/XX0000/lower-middle-and-upper-tysoe/] [accessed 13 January 2015]; it mentions a priest, but not a church in it, though there probably was one there. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Decorated period in this church. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a an octagonal unmounted font probably of the 15th century, although Bond (ibid.) notes that the ornamental work is inspired on 14th-century design ideas. The unmounted shape of this font is seen in others of the 14th century such as Burford and Northampton. The basin sides are ornamented with an arcade of pointed and crocketed trefoil arches, each containing a figure. One of them is identified in Bond (ibid.) as Mary Magdalene holding her vase. Another is a crowned male armed with sword and shield; a buttress with a crocketed pinnacle and a windowed trunk is set at each corner of the basin; Bond (ibid.) describes this type of buttress as "like nothing in the world". The lower part of the basin -it could be called the base- is a set of graded mouldings widening slightly towards the bottom. The whole is raised on a circular plinth. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 5, 1949) notes: "The Domesday Survey mentions a priest at Tysoe, [...] indicating that there was a church here in 1086. It seems to have been rebuilt and endowed about a generation later, as between 1138 and 1147 Simon, Bishop of Worcester, confirmed to the Priory of Kenilworth or its cell of Stone the church of Tysoe [...] The building dates from the end of the 11th century or beginning of the 12th [...] The font is a good example of 14th-century work. It is octagonal, the vertical-sided bowl and stem being in one, having mouldings at top and bottom and standing on a moulded base. In each side is a shallow niche with a projecting trefoiled gable-head enriched with crockets and a finial. At the angles are panelled pilasters with embattled moulded capitals and crocketed pinnacles. The foliage finials of both pinnacles and gables are carved in the hollow of the top moulding. Each niche contains an image. The southern is our Lord seated on a throne, between St. Peter (south-west) and St. Paul (south-east). The northern contains the Blessed Virgin and Child between St. Michael holding a pair of scales (north-east) and St. John the Baptist (north-west). The eastern has St. Mary Magdalene with her pot of nard, and the western St. Catherine with her wheel. It has a tall modern carved oak cover." Davidson (1985) dates the font to the 14th century and identifies the images: the Virgin Mary crowned, and Child held on her left arm; the Baptism of Christ by John the Baptist using a jug; St. Michael ("fig with wings, under crocketed gable, holds scales with both hands. Drapery over his alb"); St. Peter and St. Paul; St. Catherine; St. Mary Magdalene.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.096629, -1.50422

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 5′ 47.86″ N, 1° 30′ 15.19″ W

UTM: 30U 602462 5772841

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak

Notes: appears octagonal

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-01-13 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958

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

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

Crossley, Frederick Herbert, English Church Craftsmanship: an Introduction to the Work of the Mediaval Period and Some Account of Later Developments, London: B.T. Batsford, 1941

Davidson, Clifford, The Early Art of Coventry, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick and Lesser Sites in Warwickshire: a Subject list of Extand and LOst Art Including Items Relevant to Early Drama, Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1985

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