Stanton St. Quintin / Stanton St. Quinton / Stanton St. Quentin
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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - convex arches - double arcade (one up, one down)
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Harding, of The Sheela Na Gig project [www.sheelanagig.org/index.html#http://www.sheelanagig.org/sheelastantonstquintin.htm] [accessed 14 February 2012]
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BBL01: design element - motifs - knob - 8?
Scene Description: very large and prominent
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Harding, of The Sheela Na Gig project [www.sheelanagig.org/index.html#http://www.sheelanagig.org/sheelastantonstquintin.htm] [accessed 14 February 2012]
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CR01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Harding, of The Sheela Na Gig project [www.sheelanagig.org/index.html#http://www.sheelanagig.org/sheelastantonstquintin.htm] [accessed 14 February 2012]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Harding, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Harding, of The Sheela Na Gig project [www.sheelanagig.org/index.html#http://www.sheelanagig.org/sheelastantonstquintin.htm] [accessed 14 February 2012]
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view of church exterior - tower - northeast side - detail
![the Sheela Na Gig [cf. ChurchNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1120216004_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the Sheela Na Gig [cf. ChurchNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Harding, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Harding, of The Sheela Na Gig project [www.sheelanagig.org/index.html#http://www.sheelanagig.org/sheelastantonstquintin.htm] [accessed 14 February 2012]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: the red-marked area of the tower is the location of the Sheela N Gig
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Harding, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Harding, of The Sheela Na Gig project [www.sheelanagig.org/index.html#http://www.sheelanagig.org/sheelastantonstquintin.htm] [accessed 14 February 2012]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Buck, 1950
Image Source: B&W photograph in Buck (1950)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07322STA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Giles
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Church Notes: "church of ST. GILES, so called in 1763" [cf. VCH entry in bib.] -- a Sheela Na Gig is reported on the outside of the church: "Situated high on the church tower it is nearly indistinguishable from the surrounding masonry." [www.sheelanagig.org/index.html#http://www.sheelanagig.org/sheelastantonstquintin.htm] [accessed 15 February 2012]
Church Address: Stanton St Quintin, Wiltshire, SN14 6DQ
Site Location: Wiltshire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just NW of the junction M4-A350, 7 km NNW of Chippenham, 8 km SSW of Malmesbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bristol
Historical Region: Hundred of Malmesbury
Font Notes:
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The Handbook for travellers… (1869) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Buck (1950) classes this font in a Wiltshire group [Ditteridge, Biddestone, Tytherton Lucas, Staton St. Quintin, Winterbourne Monkton and Donhead St. Mary] defined as 'unmounted circular tub fonts' from the 'Middle Norman' period of ca. 1100-1150: "Smaller than the usual 'tub' font, being only 22 1/2 inches across the top and 22 inches high, with the inner basin only 9 inches deep; it is probable, therefore, that four to six inches have been cut off [...]This font is cracked horizontally [...]" Buck (ibid.) compares its decoration to the font at Charlton, near Malmesbury. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. [NB: C&H use the spelling "Stanton St. Quinton"]. Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a Norman font decorated with 'boss' motif. Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Small, circular, Norman. Big knobs at the bottom of the bowl, two tiers of stylized leaves above." The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 14, 1991) notes: "Stanton St. Quintin church was standing in the 12th century. [...] The lower stages of the tower and most of the nave are 12th-century. [...] On the outside west wall of the nave is a 12th-century carving." There is no mention of a font in the VCH entry for this parish. The font consists of a bucket-shaped basin decorated in a manner rather uncommon in baptismal fonts of this period and shape: the two rows of convex arches that simulate scallop pattern are not rare, but the row of (eight?) prominetly protruding knobs are an odd motif to be found in such size on what is, to all effects, the underbowl; below them, a succession of roll moulding, square volume and a second square volume constitute the base; a narrow and tall square plinth raises the whole. The inner well of the basin is lead lined. The wooden font cover is flat, with a knob metal handle, and has nasty metal spikes set tips upwards, probably to deter anyone from using the font as a seat.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Harding, of www.sheelanagig.org, for the photographs of this church and font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 559987 5707879
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, unknown
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 56.25 cm*
Basin Depth: 22.5 cm*
Basin Total Height: 55 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [measurements in inches in Buck (1950)]
LID INFORMATION
Date: unknown
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Buck, A.G. Randle, "Some Wiltshire fonts. Part I", LIII, CXCIII (December 1950), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1950, pp. 458-470; p. 466-467
- Buck, A.G. Randle, "Some Wiltshire fonts. Part II", LIV, CXCIV (June 1951), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1951, pp. 19-35; p. 22
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 227
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 479
- Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire, London: John Murray, 1869, p. 15 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=hYEOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA369&lpg=PA369&dq=hemyock+church+font&source=bl&ots=wV68KRXFhH&sig=_-CnLgSLeYKjq8YBQMsxSQrjbvA&hl=en&ei=1IKRSeTLOojKNO3c_YkM&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPR1,M1] [accessed 10 February 2009]
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 80