Mottistone / Moderstone / Modrestan / Motererestone / Mottiston
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the re-cut font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 December 2013 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3795865] [accessed 19 February 2020]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 December 2013 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3795861] [accessed 19 February 2020]
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view of church exterior - southwest end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ian Capper, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 July 2009 by Ian Capper [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5720808] [accessed 19 February 2020]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Steve Daniels, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 26 July 2017 by Steve Daniels [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5638025] [accessed 19 February 2020]
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view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2009
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 August 1999 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1173949] [accessed 19 February 2020]
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view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robert Frost 1960, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2010 by RobertFrost1960 [www.flickr.com/photos/32157648@N08/4727287672/] [accessed 12 September 2011]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06763MOT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century / 13th century [re-cut] [composite font?], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Address: Mottistone Village, Mottistone, Newport PO30 4ED, UK
Site Location: Isle of Wight, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B3399, in Brighstone Bay, 7-8 km ESE of Freshwater, 13 SW of Newport
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Portsmouth
Historical Region: Hundred of West Medine / Hundred of Bowcombe [in Domesday] -- formerly Hampshire
Additional Comments: altered font? / composite font? / re-cut?
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Mottistone [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SZ4083/mottistone/] [accessed 19 February 2020] but it mentions neither cleric nor church here. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Norman period here. Described in Cox (1911): "of late Norman date, square with angle shafts, but unhappily restored […] cubical Norman font with shafts at the angles of an unusual design. But this was spoilt in 1863, and its proportions made somewhat absurd by adding a new top course to it, on the faces of which a text has been cut in modern lettering. The font is 30 in. square, and is now 40 in. high, whilst the interior of the bowl has the awkward depth of 20 in.." The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 5, 1912) notes: "[the church] dates from the 12th century, though the last feature of this period, the west door, was removed in 1863", and does not mention any font. Described in Lloyd & Pevsner (2006): "Square with angle columns, Norman in style. It may in part be the original late C12."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 611183 5612270
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.651667, -1.427222
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 39′ 6″ N, 1° 25′ 38″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Basin Depth: 50.8 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 101.6 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 76.2 x 76.2 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [re-cut measurements -- cf. FontNotes for measurements in inches in Cox (1911)
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: English
Inscription Location: on the re-cut sides of the basin
Inscription Text: "[...] / ONE FAITH / [...]"
Inscription Notes: Dating from the re-cutting of the font in 1863? The complete text is probably the Ephesians 4:5 quote commonly used in modern fonts: "One Lord, one faith, one baptism"
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat but very thick, decorated with knotching; metal decoration and ring handle; probably Victorian, from the 1863 renovation
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 200
- Cox, John Charles, Isle of Wight: its churches and religious houses, London: G. Allen & Sons, 1911, p. 18, 96 / [www.archive.org/stream/isleofwightitsch00coxjuoft/isleofwightitsch00coxjuoft_djvu.txt] [accessed 11 May 2009]
- Lloyd, David W., The Isle of Wight, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006, p. 164