Burton Hastings / Bortone

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 13 September 2008 by Aidan McRae Thomson [http://www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/3101451185/in/pool-churchfurnishings] [accessed 31 March 2009]

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design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis

Scene Description: in one of the spandrels

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 13 September 2008 by Aidan McRae Thomson [http://www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/3101451185/in/pool-churchfurnishings] [accessed 31 March 2009]

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette

Scene Description: in one of the spandrels

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 13 September 2008 by Aidan McRae Thomson [http://www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/3101451185/in/pool-churchfurnishings] [accessed 31 March 2009]

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design element - motifs - hammer

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 June 2016 by Mike Faherty [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4991927] [accessed 5 July 2019]

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view of font and cover in context - southeast side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2008 by Aidan McRae Thomson [http://www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/3101451185/in/pool-churchfurnishings] [accessed 31 March 2009]

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view of font and cover in context - southeast side

Image Source: digital photograph in St Botolph Church web site [http://stbotolphsbh.org.uk/gallery/im/harvest-font.jpg] [accessed 5 July 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07280BUR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Botolph

Church Patron Saints: St. Botulph [aka St. Botolph, Botolph of Thorney, Botulf]

Church Location: Mill Ln, Burton Hastings, Nuneaton CV11 6XT, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located just W of the M69, about 7 km ESE of Nuneaton, 23 km NE of Coventry

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry

Historical Region: Hundred of Bumbelowe

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century / 16th century[basin only] [modern base] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Aidan McRae Thomson for his permission to reproduce his photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Burton [Hastings] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SP4189/burton-hastings/] [accessed 4 July 2019]; it mentions a priest but not a church in it, though there must have been one there. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Norman period here. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 6, 1951): "There was a priest at Burton Hastings in 1086. [...] The church was granted to Nuneaton priory in the reign of Henry II by Ralph de Tureville [...] Close by in the nave also is a creamcoloured sandstone font. It has a modern stone base but the large block it supports appears to have been carved in the late 15th or early 16th century. The circular top is 2 ft. 4 in. in diameter and the drum tapers slightly downwards, becoming octagonal with round projecting fillets at the angles. At one third of its height the fillets divide, forming eight trefoiled heads over the side panels, and the spaces above are filled mostly with conventional flower-forms. It has a modern timber canopy 2 ft. in height." Described and illustrated in the Parish web site [http://stbotolphsbh.org.uk/church/nave.html] [accessed 31 March 2009]: "The font is made out of sandstone. Text book opinions of its date seem to vary from about 1300 to the early 16th century. Carved around the font are arches with rosettes, fleurs-de-lys and a hammer." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SP4098489906] notes: "Church. C14 chancel and parts of tower. Early C16 nave. Tower rebuilt C16. Restored c.1867. C19/C20 porch. [...] font of c.1300, but partly renewed, is octagonal with blind trefoiled arcading, rosettes and fleurs-de-lys, on round base. C19 lid."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.5059, -1.398

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 30′ 21.24″ N, 1° 23′ 52.8″ W

UTM: 30U 608730 5818514

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Font Shape: round-to-octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round-to-octagonal

Diameter (includes rim): 71.12 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in the VCH entry]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th century?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal dome with knob finial; on a thin round base probably designed to match the rounded top of the basin

REFERENCES

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