Lapley / Lepelie

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Results: 11 records

B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation

Scene Description: seen here on the left panel -- other sources [cf. FontNotes] suggest the Ascension

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2012 by Aidan McRae Thomson [https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5350/7410119424_b27860fea7_b.jpg] [accessed 22 July 2019]

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B02: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - inscription

Scene Description: seen here in the centre panel

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2012 by Aidan McRae Thomson [https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5350/7410119424_b27860fea7_b.jpg] [accessed 22 July 2019]

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B03: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Circumcision of Christ? - Presentation at the temple?

Scene Description: seen here on the right panel

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © www.wheatonaston.org.uk/lapley.htm, 2004

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B04: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - visit of the three Wise Men to King Herod

Scene Description: seen here in the centre panel

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B05: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings

Scene Description: seen here on the right panel

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2012 by Aidan McRae Thomson [https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5350/7410119424_b27860fea7_b.jpg] [accessed 22 July 2019]

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B06: New Testament - public life of Christ - Christ and the Apostles?

B07: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Christ at Getsemane?

B08: blank

view of church exterior - southeast view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 June 2008 by Peter Morrell [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lapley_church.JPG] [accessed 22 July 2019]

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view of font

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "'Font in Lapley Church, Staffordshire,' showing an octagonal font, with one of the carved pictorial panels on a side [said to be 'Dutch.']'J. B.,' [John Buckler]." -- Buckler did not bother to render the two scenes to the left and right of the inscribed panel

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Image Source: digital image of a 1842 sepia wash drawing by John Buckler, now in the William Salt Library [www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/Details.aspx?&ResourceID=9290&PageIndex=1&KeyWord=lapley&SortOrder=2] [accessed 22 July 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07180LAP
Church/Chapel: Parish [former priory] Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Church Ln, Lapley, Stafford ST19 9JS, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1785 840395
Country Name: England
Location: Staffordshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 18-20 km SSW of Staffordshire, about 5 km W of Penkridge, 10 -12 km SSW of Stafford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lichfield
Historical Region: Hundred of Cuttlestone
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NW corner [it was brought into the church in the mid-19the century from a farmyard in which it was discovered]
Century and Period: 11th - 19th century [composite font?], Medieval / composite
There is entry for Lapley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SJ8712/lapley/] [accessed 22 July 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for Lapley in Kelly's 1896 Directory for Staffordshire reports an ancient font here. Cox & Harvey (1907: 218) list a baptismal font of the Norman period here. Listed in Betjeman (1958: 336) simply as "Dutch font". Pevsner (1975 c1974: 167) reads: "Font. Octagonal, Dutch, with with small primitively carved scenes. Is it early C19?". An illustration of this font is listed in an entry in the William Salt Library, Stafford [www.staffordshire.gov.uk/live/pdf/archives/fis-lei.pdf] under reference SV VII.30, a "sepia wash drawing" dated 1842, by 'J.B.' [John Buckley] -- 6 in. x 5 in. "''Font in Lapley Church, Staffordshire.' showing an octagonal font, with one of the carved pictorial panels on a side [said to be 'Dutch']." An article by C. Lynam entitled "Notes on Lapley Font, Staffordshire" appeared in The Antiquary; London Vol. 1, (Jan 1905): 12-17. [https://search.proquest.com/openview/0319dbc841045207/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=3029] [accessed 22 July 2019]; in it Lynam attempts at an identification of the scenes on the font. A letter to the editor entitled "Lapley font, Staffordshire" signed by John Addison and dated January 9, 1905, appeared in The Antiquary; London Vol. 1, (Feb 1905): 80-80 [https://search.proquest.com/openview/f27c59423b218a4d/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=3029] [accessed 22 July 2019]; in it Addison relates a visit made to this church and font, and comments on an the article by C. Lynam [cf. supra]. Addison comments on the identification of the scenes by the earlier author, proposing some changes. The entry for the Priory of Lapley in the Victoria County History (Stafford, vol. 3, 1970) notes: "It is not [...] until the time of Peter of Celle, Abbot of St. Rémy (1162-81), that the existence of a priory at Lapley can be proved. [...] The history of the priory ended in 1415 [...] The priory buildings evidently adjoined the church on the north side, and part of the site is now occupied by the timber-framed Old Manor House. The church itself contains much 12th-century work. The priory site and the church were enclosed within a moat." A local source, the Village of Wheaton Aston, [www.wheatonaston.org.uk/lapley.htm] states that "the font is of early Dutch origin, [but] no one knows how it came to Lapley." The baptismal font consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides, chamfered at top and bottom, decorated with low-relief panels illustrating the birth of Christ; the basin is raised on a plain octagonal pedestal and an octagonal lower base with a moulding and a chamfered top. The source [www.ray.cowley.btinternet.co.uk/index.htm] dates the font to the 12th century, identifies it as Dutch, and describes the scenes on the basin sides thus: 1)Annunciation; 2)Birth of Christ and inscription in "fairly modern Dutch" identifying the scene; 3)Circumcision? Presentation at the church?; 4)three Magi before Herod; 5)Adoration of the Magi; 6)[very worn]Christ and the disciples and Pharisees?; 7)[very worn] Christ being seized?; 8)blank. The Victoria County History of Staffordshire gives the date as uncertain, perhaps17th century. [Added observations: repairs made to upper rim and evidence of lid hardware; at first sight the font could be dated between the 13th and 14th at the earliest, and the 16th and 17th probably, or even later, more reallistically; the base is probably not the original]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SJ8723912932] notes: "Parish Church, on site of Benedictine Priory. C12, C13 and C15 [...] font, C19, Dutch, octagonal with carved bas-relief panels; pulpit, hexagonal with carved bas-relief panels". The Dutch inscription "HET GEBORTE CHRISTI", carved in modern lettering under the Nativity scene, uses an old-fashioned form of the present-day Dutch GEBOORTE, which appears to date the inscription to the 18th or 18th century.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.713958, -2.190288
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 42′ 50.25″ N, 2° 11′ 25.04″ W
UTM: 30U 554698 5840759

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Dutch
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on one of the sides of the basin
Inscription Text: "HET GEBORTE CHRISTI"
Inscription Source: cf. ImagesArea

LID INFORMATION

Notes: Evidence of earlier lid in the upper rim

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-07-22 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Staffordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975 c1974