Wolvey / Ulveia
Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2012
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the font at the southwest corner of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 April 2012 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/6992014674/] [accessed 18 February 2015]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2012
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 10 April 2012 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/6992014674/] [accessed 18 February 2015]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
![EXT SE digital photograph taken 10 April 2012 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/6992015484/in/photostream/] [accessed 18 February 2015]
INT E digital photograph taken 10 April 2012 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/6990101592/in/photostream/] [accessed 18 February 2015]
INT W digital photograph taken 10 April 2012 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/7136187853/in/photostream/] [accessed 18 February 2015]
FONT digital photograph taken 10 April 2012 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/6992014674/] [accessed 18 February 2015]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150220010_compressed.png)
Scene Description: EXT SE digital photograph taken 10 April 2012 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/6992015484/in/photostream/] [accessed 18 February 2015]
INT E digital photograph taken 10 April 2012 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/6990101592/in/photostream/] [accessed 18 February 2015]
INT W digital photograph taken 10 April 2012 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/7136187853/in/photostream/] [accessed 18 February 2015]
FONT digital photograph taken 10 April 2012 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/6992014674/] [accessed 18 February 2015]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 April 2012 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/6992015484/in/photostream/] [accessed 18 February 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
![the top of the font is visible at the far [west] end, left [south] side](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150220012_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the top of the font is visible at the far [west] end, left [south] side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 April 2012 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/7136187853/in/photostream/] [accessed 18 February 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 April 2012 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/6990101592/in/photostream/] [accessed 18 February 2015]
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design element - motifs - tracery?
Scene Description: on the remaining upper side of the stem -- the image here shows the remaing part of the old font in a lighter stone colour; the lower part of the stem is a restoration [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2012
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 10 April 2012 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/6992014674/] [accessed 18 February 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06484WOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century [basin only] [composite font], Decorated ? [basin only]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the SW end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Address: School Lane, Wolvey, Warwickshire LE10 3LB
Site Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 8 km SE of Nuneaton, between Coventry and Hinckley
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry
Historical Region: Hundred of Bumbelowe [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Knightlow
Additional Comments: altered font (the present font: only the basin and upper part of the stem are original of the 14thC) -- disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Wolvey [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP4288/wolvey/] [accessed 18 February 2015]; it mentions a priest, but not a church in it, though there probably was one there. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol 6, 1951) notes: "Apart from the south door, nothing remains of the 12th-century church. It was rebuilt early in the 13th century and again in the 14th century, the tower being either rebuilt or added in the 15th century. It has been considerably restored at various times [...] The font, in the south-west corner, is in the form of an octagonal pillar with a moulded capital and trefoiled panels; only the 14th-century capital with a deep lead-lined basin is original." English Heritage [Listing NGR: SP4307187983] (1960) reports: "C14 octagonal font has blind tracery which is partly C19."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Aidan McRae Thomson, of Warwickshire Churches [http://warwickshirechurches.weebly.com], for his photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 610801 5816494
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.48733, -1.368184
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 29′ 14.39″ N, 1° 22′ 5.46″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat; appears modern
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.