Willoughby / Wilebec / Wilebei / Wilebene / Wilebere

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design element - motifs - foliage - 2

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design element - motifs - panel - rectangular

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: showing all four motifs: two sheaf-like foliated motifs between two Greenmen heads

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human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - head - vegetation stemming out of the mouth - 2

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view of church exterior - northeast 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: 06476WIL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: Brooks Close, Willoughby, Warwickshire CV23 8BH

Country Name: England

Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A45, NW of Daventry, 12 km S of Rugby, 30-35 km E of Warwick

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry

Historical Region: Hundred of Marton [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Knightlow

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, "In the west bay against the arcade pillar" [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Early English

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Walwyn, of Midland Churches [http://professor-moriarty.com/moriarties/midland_churches], for his photograph of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are four entries for this Willoughby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP5167/willoughby/] [accessed 12 February 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. A font here is listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as being of the Norman period. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 6, 1951) notes: "The church was granted by Thurstan to the Hospital of St. John Baptist, Oxford, before 1246, [...] when the grant was confirmed by Gilbert de Segrav [...] The [present] church [...] was built at the beginning of the 16th century, the tower being the last part to be completed. [...] In the west bay against the arcade pillar there is a rather unusual font. It is of red sandstone, shaped like an inverted bell with a simple roll-moulded rim and a square stem with beaded panels on three sides, the other is plain. Carved immediately below the rim on one side there are two crude demi-figures with outstretched arms, ending in a sort of fleur-de-lis, separated by two leaves shaped like fleurs-de-lis. It has a deep lead-lined basin and the bowl and stem are out of one piece of stone; the base is hidden below the flooring. It probably dates from early in the 13th century." Dated to the Early English period in English Heritage [Listing NGR: SP5159267443] (1960). Described in Davidson (1985) as a baptismal font of the 13th century: "Green men on underside of font". The Rugby Borough Council's Official Guide [web version] writes: "the font is Norman and hewn from a single block of sandstone". The figures are described incorrectly in the VCH; the horizontal "outstretched arms" are actually bundles of foliage stemming out of a head, a crude version of Greenmen; between them are two vertical foliage motifs with curled ends on the sides; the square pedestal has a panel carved on the front side, as if to frame something but it is blank. There is a flat round font cover on it.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.302305, -1.244698

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 18′ 8.3″ N, 1° 14′ 40.91″ W

UTM: 30U 619684 5796113

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (red)

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: cauldron (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

Rim Thickness: no

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: round, flat and plain; appears modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-02-12 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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

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