Lea No. 1 / Lecce / The Lea
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view of font and cover - upper view
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view of font in context
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view of font in context
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view of font in context
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Tyrrell-Green (1928: fig. 88)
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animal - mammal - lion - passant
Scene Description: passant to the right
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human figure - with fish
Scene Description: a human appears to arrack or hold a large fish
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animal - zoomachia
Scene Description: a canine-like animal attacks a ram
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human figure - 2 - embracing?
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design element - patterns - geometric
Scene Description: Cosmatesque / Cosmatic pattern
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animal - fabulous animal or monster - siren - holding up its tails
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animal - zoomachia
Scene Description: a fox-like quadruped on a rabbit?
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: all around in the scotia below the rim
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design element - motifs - vine
Scene Description: all around the side, with inserts of zoomachia scenes
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animal - zoomachia
Scene Description: a reptile on a fish?
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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."
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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"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ian S, 2014
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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design element - architectural - column - knotted
Scene Description: a large single knot on it
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animal - mammal - elephant
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Apostle or saint - haloed - male - holding book
Scene Description: bearded and haloed; standing; holding a book and one other object
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design element - patterns - geometric
Scene Description: Cosmatesque / Cosmatic pattern framing the saintly figure
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view of base - detail
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animal - mammal - ram - head - 4
Scene Description: their horns interlocked
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animal - mammal - ram - head - 4
Scene Description: right below the underbowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sensor, 1930
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 - foliage or scroll
Scene Description: on the basin and underbowl
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view of stoup in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sensor, 1930
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Apostle or saint? - haloed figure - unidentified
Scene Description: on the cloth over the elephant's back
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animal - mammal - elephant
Scene Description: wears a mantle (?) on which appears a haloed figure
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sensor, 1930
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design element - motifs - knot
Scene Description: in the middle of the slender pedestal of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sensor, 1930
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05885LEA
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (early), Medieval [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist [believed to be of southern Italian origin]
Font Location in Church: Inside this church since 1907
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Notes: late-13thC church; restored 1854
Church Address: Lea, Ross-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Site Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A40, 6.5 km SE of Ross-on-Wye
Historical Region: formerly Gloucestershire -- Hundred of Bromsash [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: re-cycled stoup: used as a font / imported font (originally from Italy)
Font Notes:
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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]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Pickard for his photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 534483 5749267
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.8931, -2.4989
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 53′ 35.16″ N, 2° 29′ 56.04″ W
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, vol. II: p. 99
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 137 and fig. 88