Wyken
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns - double columns with capitals
Scene Description: somewhat similar to the one on the font at Walsgrave on Sowe
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of font and cover
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05709WYK
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalen
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary Magdalene
Church Location: Wyken Croft, Coventry CV2 3AR
Country Name: England
Location: West Midlands, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located in the NE suburbs of Coventry
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry
Historical Region: formerly Warwickshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Date: ca. 1135-1154?
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Late Norman
Cognate Fonts: Arcading motif somewhat similar to the one on the font at Walsgrave on Sowe
No entry for this Wyken found in the Domesday survey. A font in this church is listed in Bond (1908) simply as a straight-sided bucket-shaped unmounted baptismal font. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 8, 1969) notes: "Wyken chapel was one of the four said to have been built during the civil war of Stephen's reign by Ranulf de Gernon and Thurstan Banaster as a refuge for the poor. [...] It was one of the chapelries restored to St. Michael's, Coventry, by Ranulf de Gernon. [...] The chapels were not to have the right of burial, which was to be reserved to St. Michael's [...] The circular 12th-century font bowl is decorated with carved arcading; it resembles the font of similar date at Walsgrave-on-Sowe." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2015) as a tub-shaped Romanesque baptismal font of the 12th century made of red sandstone; the sides of the basin are decorated with an arcade motif somewhat similar to that on the font at Walsgrave on Sowe St Mary's [cf. Index entry]; the short base is round and chamfered, and the lower base is square with the angles cut to an octagonal form.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.421279,
-1.464709
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 25′ 16.6″ N,
1° 27′ 52.95″ W
UTM: 30U 604403 5809004
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, sandstone (red)
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 12 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 44 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 68 cm* [56 cm* at bottom]
Basin Total Height: 50 cm*
Height of Base: 40 cm [calculated]
Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2015)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Apparatus: no
Notes: polygonal pyramid with decorated sides; modern
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-03-09 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: 2003-07-14 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
