Foleshill in Coventry / Focheshelle

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: separating the two registers on the basin sides

Image Source: 1831 etching print of this font made by George Eld of Coventry [ref.: AN986959001] in the British Museum

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the British Museum (email of 10 March 2012)

design element - motifs - moulding - double

Image Source: 1831 etching print of this font made by George Eld of Coventry [ref.: AN986959001] in the British Museum

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the British Museum (email of 10 March 2012)

design element - motifs - zigzag

Scene Description: a broad band of it

Image Source: 1831 etching print of this font made by George Eld of Coventry [ref.: AN986959001] in the British Museum

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the British Museum (email of 10 March 2012)

design element - motifs - zigzag

Scene Description: a broad band of it all around

Image Source: 1831 etching print of this font made by George Eld of Coventry [ref.: AN986959001] in the British Museum

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the British Museum (email of 10 March 2012)

symbol - cross - Greek

Scene Description: in one of the angles of the zig-zag

Image Source: 1831 etching print of this font made by George Eld of Coventry [ref.: AN986959001] in the British Museum

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the British Museum (email of 10 March 2012)

view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 February 2006 by Ian Rob [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/124720] [accessed 9 March 2015]

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view of font

Scene Description: in 1831

Image Source: 1831 etching print of this font made by George Eld of Coventry [ref.: AN986959001] in the British Museum

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the British Museum (email of 10 March 2012)

view of font

Image Source: B&W photograph by Harry Bodenham in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/875/] [accessed 9 March 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 08496FOL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Lawrence

Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]

Church Location: Old Church Road, Coventry, West Midlands, CV6 7ED

Country Name: England

Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Foleshill is now a suburb of Coventry, 4 km from its town centre, to the NNE; the church stands in a large churchyard on the N side of Old Church Road.

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry

Historical Region: Hundred of Bumbelowe [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: In the S aisle, just W of the S transept

Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Foleshill [varian spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP3582/foleshill/] [accessed 9 March 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Britih Museum holds a 1831 etching print of this font made by George Eld of Coventry [ref.: AN986959001 Department: Prints & Drawings. Registration number: 1856,0308.281. Location: British XIXc Unmounted Roy]. The National Gazetteer of 1868 reports "a very old font" in this church. Wilson's Gazetteer of 1870-1872 notes "an ancient font" here. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 8, 1969) notes: "Foleshill chapel first appeared among the list of chapelries granted to St. Michael's in the early 12th century. [...] It was appropriated to Coventry Priory in 1259. [...] The unusual font is all that remains of the Norman building. [...] a Norman font survives at Foleshill. [...] The 12th-century font is circular and decorated with primitive chevron ornament." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008) as a baptismal font of the 12th century; the bucket-shaped basin may be the only original piece, since the two octagonal blocks of the base appear so ill-matched. The ornamentation of the basin side is arranged in two registers: at the upper rim is a thin double moulding, below which is a band of two-strand zig-zag motif; the lower register is separated from the upper by a thin moulding similar to the ones at the upper rim, and is a mirror image of the upper register, except for a for a Greek cross of wedge-shaped arms in one of the angles of the zig-zag. The whole font is raised on a modern plinth of the "kneeling-stone" type. The CRSBI (ibid.) photograph [May 1997] shows the inner basin is lead-lined.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.439337, -1.482143

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 26′ 21.61″ N, 1° 28′ 55.72″ W

UTM: 30U 603175 5810988

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (red for the basin, grey for the base)

Number of Pieces: three?

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

Rim Thickness: 10.5 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 46 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 67 cm* [58 cm* at bottom]

Basin Total Height: 49 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-03-09 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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. Accessed: 2003-07-11 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

Wilson, John Marius, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales: embracing recent changes in counties, dioceses, parishes, and boroughs [...], Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., 1870-1872