Chelwood

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B01: design element - motifs - scroll or curl - 4

Scene Description: is this part of the unfinished work? [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 February 2008 by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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B02: design element - motifs - circle - concentric

Scene Description: is this part of the unfinished work? [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 February 2008 by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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BBU01: design element - motifs - scallop

Scene Description: just outlined on the stone, all around the upper basin sides -- is this part of the unfinished work? [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 February 2008 by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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LB01: design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: on the lower base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 February 2008 by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 February 2008 by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 February 2008 by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09150CHE

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard

Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard

Country Name: England

Location: Somerset, South West

Directions to Site: Located on the A368, just E of the A37, 3 km SE of Pensford, 22 km S of Bristol

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th century, Norman

Cognate Fonts: the fonts at Castlemartin and Hinton Blewett [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Kelly's Directory of 1883: "old Norman font". Wade & Wade (1929) note: "an ancient font (probably Norm[an])". Described in Pevsner (1958): "Norman, circular, or rather with a large block capital rounded at the top corners. At the edges tiny volutes. Top frieze of something like lambrequins." Described by Peter Lord, in Diwylliant... (1998-2003) as an example of unfinished baptismal font, "which suggests that it was the practice to roughout the shape and incise the general design at the quarry or central workshop, and carry out the detailed carving at the church" [NB: compare Lord's theory with the evidence of the export of finished fonts from Tournai, Gotland, etc. -- especially Lars Berggren's "The export of limestone and limestone fonts" in Cogs, Cargoes, and Commerce: Maritime Bulk Trade in Northern Europe, 1150-1400 (Toronto: PIMS, 2002)]. Thurlby (2006) notes the similarities in the treatment of the decorative elements on the fonts at Castlemartin, Chelwood and Hinton Blewett. [NB: is this a case of an unfinished font or has the original carving been semi-erased? -- font not yet inspected in situ by BSI]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: square

Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Notes: there are holes in the rim of the basin at opposite angles; were the staples for the cover removed or never installed?

REFERENCES

The Visual Culture of Wales = Diwylliant gweledol Cymru, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998-2003

Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Somersetshire with the city of Bristol, London: Kelly & Co., 1883

Pevsner, Nikolaus, North Somerset and Bristol, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958

Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006

Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929