Lea No. 1 / Lecce / The Lea

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Apostle or saint - haloed - male - holding book

Scene Description: bearded and haloed; standing; holding a book and one other object

Image Source: digital photograph 14 June 2024 by Simon Pickard

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Apostle or saint? - haloed figure - unidentified

Scene Description: on the cloth over the elephant's back

Image Source: illustration in A. G. Sensor (1930) in [http://www.commanet.org/reflect.aspx?action=navigate&rec=5009999900222463&dir=P&view=remin] [accessed 31 December 2008]

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - siren - holding up its tails

Image Source: digital photograph 14 June 2024 by Simon Pickard

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animal - mammal - elephant

Image Source: digital photograph 14 June 2024 by Simon Pickard

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animal - mammal - elephant

Scene Description: wears a mantle (?) on which appears a haloed figure

Image Source: illustration in A. G. Sensor (1930) in [http://www.commanet.org/reflect.aspx?action=navigate&rec=5009999900222463&dir=P&view=remin] [accessed 31 December 2008]

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animal - mammal - lion - passant

Scene Description: passant to the right

Image Source: digital photograph 14 June 2024 by Simon Pickard

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animal - mammal - ram - head - 4

Scene Description: their horns interlocked

Image Source: digital photograph 14 June 2024 by Simon Pickard

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animal - mammal - ram - head - 4

Scene Description: right below the underbowl

Image Source: illustration in A. G. Sensor (1930) in [http://www.commanet.org/reflect.aspx?action=navigate&rec=5009999900222463&dir=P&view=remin] [accessed 31 December 2008]

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animal - zoomachia

Scene Description: a reptile on a fish?

Image Source: digital photograph 14 June 2024 by Simon Pickard

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animal - zoomachia

Scene Description: a fox-like quadruped on a rabbit?

Image Source: digital photograph 14 June 2024 by Simon Pickard

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animal - zoomachia

Scene Description: a canine-like animal attacks a ram

Image Source: digital photograph 14 June 2024 by Simon Pickard

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design element - architectural - column - knotted

Scene Description: a large single knot on it

Image Source: digital photograph 14 June 2024 by Simon Pickard

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: all around in the scotia below the rim

Image Source: digital photograph 14 June 2024 by Simon Pickard

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design element - motifs - foliage or scroll

Scene Description: on the basin and underbowl

Image Source: illustration in A. G. Sensor (1930) in [http://www.commanet.org/reflect.aspx?action=navigate&rec=5009999900222463&dir=P&view=remin] [accessed 31 December 2008]

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design element - motifs - knot

Scene Description: in the middle of the slender pedestal of the base

Image Source: illustration in A. G. Sensor (1930) in [http://www.commanet.org/reflect.aspx?action=navigate&rec=5009999900222463&dir=P&view=remin] [accessed 31 December 2008]

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design element - motifs - vine

Scene Description: all around the side, with inserts of zoomachia scenes

Image Source: digital photograph 14 June 2024 by Simon Pickard

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design element - patterns - geometric

Scene Description: Cosmatesque / Cosmatic pattern

Image Source: digital photograph 14 June 2024 by Simon Pickard

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design element - patterns - geometric

Scene Description: Cosmatesque / Cosmatic pattern framing the saintly figure

Image Source: digital photograph 14 June 2024 by Simon Pickard

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human figure - 2 - embracing?

Image Source: digital photograph 14 June 2024 by Simon Pickard

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human figure - with fish

Scene Description: a human appears to arrack or hold a large fish

Image Source: digital photograph 14 June 2024 by Simon Pickard

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view of base - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 14 June 2024 by Simon Pickard

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St John the Baptist, Lea. Viewed across the A40 in the south Herefordshire village of Lea. The church, extensively restored in 1854, has late 13th century origins."

Image Source: digital photograph 21 April 2013 by Jaggery [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3422275] [axxessed 16 June 2024]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St John's the Baptist Church, Lea"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 May 2014 by Ian S [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3996054] [accessed 16 June 2024]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Tyrrell-Green (1928: fig. 88)

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view of font and cover - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph 14 June 2024 by Simon Pickard

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph 14 June 2024 by Simon Pickard

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph 14 June 2024 by Simon Pickard

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph 14 June 2024 by Simon Pickard

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph 14 June 2024 by Simon Pickard

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view of stoup in context

Image Source: illustration in A. G. Sensor (1930) in [http://www.commanet.org/reflect.aspx?action=navigate&rec=5009999900222463&dir=P&view=remin] [accessed 31 December 2008]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05885LEA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist [believed to be of southern Italian origin]

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: Lea, Ross-on-Wye, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off the A40, 6.5 km SE of Ross-on-Wye

Historical Region: formerly Gloucestershire -- Hundred of Bromsash [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside this church since 1907

Century and Period: 13th century (early), Medieval [altered]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Pickard for his photographs of this font

Church Notes: late-13thC church; restored 1854

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an ebtry for this Lea [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SO6621/lea/] [accessed 16 June 2024]; it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Described and illustrated in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a very interesting font originally "made for a holy-water stoup. The material is Italian marble, elaborately carved, and adorned besides with small bands of Italian mosaic [Cosmatic work]. A cluster of rams' heads immediately supports the bowl, and the slender stem is curiously knotted in the centre, resting for base upon the figure of an apparelled elephant". [a haloed figure is depicted on the "apparel" of the elephant]. Described and illustrated in A.G. Sensor (1930) [http://www.commanet.org/reflect.aspx?action=navigate&rec=5009999900222463&dir=P&view=remin] [accessed 31 December 2008]: "The Lea Church has been enriched by a white marble sculptured bowl and elegant pedestal of considerable antiquity. This beautiful gift has been presented by Mrs Hope Edwards in memory of her mother and was purchased from a London dealer who received it direct from Italy. The bowl was originally a holy-water stoop but it has now been re-dedicated and in future will serve as a font for the rite of baptisms." A description of this font is also given in the Royal Commission's inventory of Herefordshire (1931-1934): "Font: of white marble, with round bowl carved with scrolled ornament and figures and with a band of Cosmatesque mosaic; shaft in form of a column, knotted in the middle and with capital carved with four rams' heads; base standing on back of carved figure of an elephant, probably S. Italian work, early 13th-century, given to the church in 1907." [cf. Index entry for Lea No. 2 for an old font, perhaps the original from this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.8931, -2.4989

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 53′ 35.16″ N, 2° 29′ 56.04″ W

UTM: 30U 534483 5749267

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble (Italian marble with a band of mosaic)

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle

REFERENCES

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1931-1934

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928