Linley

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animal - bird - head

Scene Description: a set of facing beaky heads sandwiched between the upper rope moulded rim, and the circles below

Image Source: photograph taken 18 Juky 1981 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

design element - motifs - circle - quartered circle, etc.

Scene Description: whether or not they are meant to be crosses, those quartered do so -- a set of roundels divided into quarters, six parts, etc,. by crossing lines, located in the upper and lower spandrels of the large beaded-tape circles

Image Source: photograph taken 18 Juky 1981 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

design element - motifs - circle - quartered circle, etc.

Scene Description: there are also some divided circles located inside the large beaded-tape circles

Image Source: photograph taken 18 Juky 1981 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

design element - motifs - floral - flower

Scene Description: several large ones, inside the large beaded-tape circles; they all have the divided circle motif in their centre, some quartered, some in six parts, etc.

Image Source: photograph taken 18 Juky 1981 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: large leafy shapes, now much eroded

Image Source: Lantern Slide. Shrewsbury Museums Service (SHYMS: P/2005/2465). Image sy12067 [www.darwincountry.org/explore/021348.html?sid=] [accessed 27 March 2010]

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: while some of the upper basin sides have the beaky animal heads, others appear to be filled with large leafy motifs similar to those below the large beaded-tape rings

Image Source: Lantern Slide. Shrewsbury Museums Service (SHYMS: P/2005/2465). Image sy12067 [www.darwincountry.org/explore/021348.html?sid=] [accessed 27 March 2010]

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design element - motifs - interlace - linked rings - beaded-tape - floral or foliage motifs

Scene Description: the beaded-tape forms the large circles in which a variety of motifs are inscribed [NB: only some of the rings are linked; the ones on this side, for instance, show both linked and unlinked rings]

Image Source: Lantern Slide. Shrewsbury Museums Service (SHYMS: P/2005/2465). Image sy12067 [www.darwincountry.org/explore/021348.html?sid=] [accessed 27 March 2010]

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: damaged and eroded

Image Source: photograph taken 18 Juky 1981 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

head, face or mask

Scene Description: the ones linking the rings

Image Source: Lantern Slide. Shrewsbury Museums Service (SHYMS: P/2005/2465). Image sy12067 [www.darwincountry.org/explore/021348.html?sid=] [accessed 27 March 2010]

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human figure - grotesque or fantastic - head

Scene Description: the one in the left beaded-circle here

Image Source: photograph taken 18 Juky 1981 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum

Scene Description: Sheila-na-gig?

Image Source: digital photograph 24 December 2009 by Corographer [www.panoramio.com/photo/30230633] [accessed 4 March 2015]

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view of church exterior - south door

Scene Description: the font visible inside

Image Source: engraving from an original drawing by A.M. Maw (?), del., in Eyton (1854- ) reproduced in The Archaeological Journal (vol. 12, June 1855: 211) and in Anderson (1864)

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Leonard's Church. Situated up a narrow unmade lane the ancient church is surrounded by bluebell woods."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 April 2007 by John m [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/415904] [accessed 4 March 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: with the font at the far [west] end, beneath the tower in July 1981 [cf. FontNotes on the font being moved within the church]

Image Source: photograph taken 18 Juky 1981 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

view of font

Image Source: Lantern Slide. Shrewsbury Museums Service (SHYMS: P/2005/2465). Image sy12067 [www.darwincountry.org/explore/021348.html?sid=] [accessed 27 March 2010]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction – Fair Dealing

view of font

Image Source: engraving from an original drawing by A.M. Maw (?), del., in Eyton (1854- ) reproduced in The Archaeological Journal (vol. 12, June 1855: 209) and in Anderson (1864)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07003LIN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard [earlier St. Nicholas] [redundant]

Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard [earlier dedication: St. Nicholas]

Church Location: Linley, Barrow, Shropshire TF12 5JU

Country Name: England

Location: Shropshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located just NE of the A489-A488 junction, off the B4373, 4 km SE of Broseley, 34 km WSW of Shrewsbury

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford

Historical Region: Hundred of Munslow; Liberty and Borough of Wenlock

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, by the S entranceway [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman

Cognate Fonts: Bayton, Morville and Rock, all in the area

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Timothy Marlow for his photographs of this font

Church Notes: church now redundant and in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust -- the north doorway is blocked but it has a tympanum with a Sheela-na-gig [cf. www.broseley.org.uk/church.htm#Linley%20Church [accessed 27 March 2010], but the VCH [cf. FontNotes] describes it as a Green Man. By comparison the tympanum on the south entrance is decorated with a geometric patterns

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No entry for Linley found in the Domesday survey for Shropshire [www.domesdaymap.co.uk/county/Shropshire/] [accessed 4 March 2015]. The old font here is illustrated in Eyton (1854- ), with a drawing by Rev. J.L. Petit. Illustrated in Anderson (1864), probably soon after the church was renovated in 1858 [cf. infra] [NB: Anderson (ibid.) points out that Linley does not have an entry in the Domesday survey. Noted in Hare (1898) [NB: Hare gives the dedication of Linley church as St. Nicholas]. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Norman period. English Heritage [English Heritage Building ID: 254327] (1950) notes: "The round Norman tub font, similar to Morville and influenced by the Herefordshire school, has cable-moulding around the rim, and medallions which, on the north side, emerge from the mouths of demonic masks." A footnote in Pevsner (1968) mentions that "Mr Stratford compares [the Bayon font] with Linley and abaci at Leominster in Herefordshire". The bucket-shaped basin is decorated with a rope moulding at the upper rim, and a set of liked circles of beaded-tape with inscribed floral and foliage motifs, linked by the traditional lion (?) heads of the Norman style; above and below the linked rings are large foliage motifs; the lower 1/3 of the font is plain and splaying. The Victoria County History (Shropshire, vol. 10, 1998) notes: "Architectural evidence suggests that Linley chapel was built in the later 12th century [...] small church, dedicated to St. Nicholas in the 18th and early 19th century but to St. Leonard by 1856 [...] It was restored in 1858, through Layton Lowndes's exertions and generosity, to designs of A. W. Blomfield [...] The south door was blocked [NB: probably means the north door, the one with the Sheela-na-gig motif in the tympanum] [...] and the elaborate 12th-century font was moved from the east end of the nave to the tower" [NB: the VCH (ibid.) describes the figure in the north door typanum as a Green Man, not a Sheela]. Noted in Newman & Pevsner (2006) as Norman.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.5834, -2.4639

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 35′ 0.24″ N, 2° 27′ 50.04″ W

UTM: 30U 536323 5826064

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: bucket-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-03-27 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864

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

Eyton, Robert William, The Antiquities of Shropshire, London: John Russell Smith, 1856-

Hare, Augustus John Cuthbert, Shropshire, London: G. Allen, 1898

Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Worcestershire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968