Bishampton / Bihampton / Bisantone / Bisantune / Bissehamton / Byshampton
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Results: 8 records
B01: design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 8-petal - in a circle
Scene Description: too neat to be original; probably much re-tooled
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romaneque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/984/] [accessed 23 September 2014]
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BBL01: design element - motifs - braid - 2-strand
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Image Source: B&W photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/984/] [accessed 23 September 2014]
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BBU01: symbol - varied
Scene Description: stars, crosses, etc., too neat to be original; probably much re-tooled
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Image Source: B&W photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/984/] [accessed 23 September 2014]
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BBU02: symbol
Scene Description: these two appear the least worked over
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view of church exterior
Scene Description: Source caption: "Originally built in Norman times the first recorded Vicar of Bishampton was Thomas de Pippard and full list of vicars from that time exists in the Church. The church was once a chapelry of Fladbury and at that time was dedicated to St. Peter. However, during rebuilding in 1870 the figure carved for the pulpit proved to be St James and not St. Peter. It proved easier to rededicate the Church to St James than to remake the pulpit! "
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 May 2005 by Richard Dunn [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/10159] [accessed 23 September 2014]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: in the space beneath the tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tim Lewis, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2014 by Tim Lewis [http://churchtramp.blogspot.ca/2014/08/bishampton-st-james-worcestershire.html] [accessed 23 September 2014]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romaneque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2014
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the font in the foreground, at the west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tim Lewis, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2014 by Tim Lewis [http://churchtramp.blogspot.ca/2014/08/bishampton-st-james-worcestershire.html] [accessed 23 September 2014]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 07335BIS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?), Late Norman
Cognate Fonts: Other fonts with similar decoration at Bricklehampton and South Littleton, also in Worcestershire
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James [originally St. Peter's]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, beneath the tower
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James [NB: original dedication was St. Peter]
Church Notes: formerly a chapel-of-ease to Fladbuty -- original dedication was St. Peter but. after 19th-century renovations, when the wrong saint was carved on the pulpit by mistake, the advocation was changed to match the new addition.
Church Address: Church Lane, Bishampton, Worcestershire WR10 2LT
Site Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 15 km ESE of Worcester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Oswaldslow
Additional Comments: altered font? (re-tooled or replacement base)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Bishampton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO9851/bishampton/] [accessed 23 September 2014]; it reports a priest and church lands in it. Noake (1868) reports a Norman font in this church. Miller (1890) notes that the Church of St. Peter was a chapelry of Fladbury, with a vicarage ordained in 1325, and that the church of St. James', which was rebuilt in 1870, has a Norman font in it. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period, ornamented with "cable and other characteristic mouldings". The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "There was a priest and possibly a church at Bishampton in 1086. [...] Bishampton appears at one time to have been a chapelry of Fladbury. [...] The church [...] appears to preserve the plan of a 12th-century building, to which a western tower was added c. 1400. The nave and chancel were, however, completely rebuilt in 1870, the stonework of the doors and windows being reused where possible. [...] The circular bowl to the font is of the late 12th century, with roses, crosses and stars forming a band round the edge; the stem is modern." English Heritage [Listing NGR: SO9899351840] (1965) reports a "Late C12 font" in this church. In Pevsner (1968): "Font. Of cauldron shape; late C12." Brooks & Pevsner (2007) add details of the decorative motifs: "Decoration of crosses, rosettes, and six-pointed stars; rope moulding below(cf. Bricklehampton). Described as a Norman font located in the west end of the nave, beneath the tower in the Bishampton entry, 'Recent grants' report of the Grants Committee meetings (9 March 2004 and 22 June 2004) of the Historic Churches Preservation Trust [source: www.historicchurches.org.uk]. Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2014), where the stem of the base is identified as original, but the "double-roll base, the lower roll carved with cable [...] might no be original"; this same source points out that there are other "less complicated fonts with similar decoration at Bricklehampton and South Littleton, Worcestershire." As this source indicates, and a look at the object corroborates, this font has been drastically re-tooled.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 567280 5779837
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.164918, -2.016329
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 9′ 53.71″ N, 2° 0′ 58.78″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Notes on Measurements: [no measurements given in CRSBI]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th cemtury?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round, with metal decoration; Victorian?
REFERENCES
- The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Worcestershire, London: Victoria County History, 1924, vol. III: pp. 261ff
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Brooks, Alan, Worcestershire, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 152
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 227
- Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890, vol. 2: 174-175
- Noake, John, Noake's Guide to Worcestershire: the complete text, London; Worcester: Longman and Co.; J. Noake, 1868, p. 46
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Worcestershire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968, p. 93