Waddington nr. Clitheroe / Widitun

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Results: 9 records
design element - motifs - floral - 8
design element - motifs - floral or foliage
design element - motifs - moulding
design element - motifs - moulding
symbol - shield - emblem - Christ - the instruments of the Passion
view of church exterior - southwest view
view of church interior - looking east
view of church interior - looking west
INFORMATION
FontID: 05991WAD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Helen
Church Patron Saints: St. Helena
Country Name: England
Location: Lancashire, North West
Directions to Site: Located on the B6478, 3 km NW of Clitheroe
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Blackburn
Historical Region: Hundred of Craven -- formerly West Riding of Yorkshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: Another such at Kildwick, in Yorkshire
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Waddington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey https://opendomesday.org/place/SD7243/waddington/] [accessed 20 January 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Noted in Glynne's 10 April 1861 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The font is octagonal and late Perpendicular." Illustrated in a drawing (1808) by John Buckler in the William Salt Library, Staffordshire Archive [http://www.archives.staffordshire.gov.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?&dsqIni=DserveV.ini&dsqApp=Archive2&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo=='WA1/3/3/105')] [accesed 25 November 2007]: "'Font in Waddington Church, Lancashire.' Showing an octagonal font with carved shields, on an octagonal shaft, with a square base. 'J. B.,' [John Buckler]. 4.5 inches x 5.5 inches." Noted in Morris (1932) as one of two late examples, the other at Kildwick [Yorkshire], of fonts decorated with the Instruments of the Passion. Ditto in Mee (1941). In Pevsner (1986 c1967): "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal, with shields carrying the Instruments of the Passion." The Churches in Wharfdale web site [www.daelnet.co.uk] notes "a 15th century octagonal font [...] decorated with the symbols of the Passion" in the church of Waddington St Helen's. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SD7286643822] notes: "Church, c.1500 with nave and chancel rebuilt 1894. [...] The early C16 octagonal sandstone font has a base with decorative motifs and a bowl with shields carved with the instruments of the Passion."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.88953, -2.4143
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 53′ 22.31″ N, 2° 24′ 51.48″ W
UTM: 30U 538494 5971390
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007
Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941
Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967