Cawthorne No. 2 / Caltorne

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B01: inscription

Scene Description: "F P O", repeated lower down

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 May 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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B02: design element - motifs - leaf - clover or trefoil? (symbol of the Trinity)

Scene Description: "a trefoil or shamrock"? [cf. Font notes]

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B03: symbol - shield - emblem - Christ - the five wounded limbs of Christ: heart (side-wound), hands, and feet

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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B04: design element - motifs - floral - rose

Scene Description: "a mystic rose"

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B05: symbol - cross?

Scene Description: "more than one form of cross" -- it is possible that other cross symbols may be hidden under the lower rim of the cover, but these look more like dog-tooth motif or 4-point stars

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B06: design element - motifs - Ogee

Scene Description: or symbol of the Trinity?

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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Scene Description: at the upper level of the underbowl

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BU02: inscription

Scene Description: "F P O", repeated on the side of the basin

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BU03: human figure - head - wearing headdress or hood

Scene Description: is it a grotesque?

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BU04: inscription?

Scene Description: initials?

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BU05: animal - head

Scene Description: a lion's head? or another grotesque?

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view of font

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover in context

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view of font cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09362CAW

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints [earlier at Canon Hall]

Church Patron Saints: All Saints [medieval dedication: St. Michael]

Country Name: England

Location: South Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located on the A635, about 30 km S of Leeds

Historical Region: formerly West Riding of Yorkshire

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the S aisle, opposite the S door

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of this font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Glynne's 30 April 1863 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The font is mutilated, has an octagonal bowl, on a stem chaged with shields, etc." Described in Pratt (1881): "The Font [...] is an octagonal one of the early part of the fifteenth century, of Roche Abbey stone, bearing some sacred emblem on each of its eight sides [...]. On one side, and repeated lower down, are the letters 'F P O' interpreted to stand for 'Fons Purificationis Omnium', 'The Fountain of Purification for all'. Other sides bear the trefoil or shamrock, the emblem of the Holy Trinity said to have been used by St. Patrick when preaching in Ireland; a shield with the five sacred wounds; a mystic rose; and more than one form of cross. The font cover is a memorial of the late Mrs. Stanhope from the offerings gathered in Church on Nov. 14th, 1880. It is an oak crocketed spire with tracery and bears a brass with the words, 'An offering by the 'Congregation in Memory of Elizabeth Julia Spencer Stanhope, 1880.' The upper part of the Font has unfortunately been much cut down. The bowl of the Font was at one time in the pleasure-grounds of Cannon Hall. The base was happily discovered at the late Mr. Wigglesworth's farm at Hill Top, Hoylandswaine, having been removed from the Church by a former Churchwarden, when a small marble font -of more convenient size, as was thought - was being substituted for this original one. The discovery of the base lead to the two parts being again united and restored to their proper place." [source: http://members.tripod.com/%7Emidgley/cawthornehistory.html , transcription by Tim Midgley]. Noted in Morris (1932): "Very curious olf font -- probably early 12th century. On it are repeated the initials (?) F. P. O." Pevsner (1986 c1967) describes it as an octagonal font of the Perpendicular period.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, [Roche Abbey stone]

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: initials

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes for suggested interpretation]

Inscription Location: on one of the basin panels, repeated lower down

Inscription Text: "F P O"

Inscription Source: Charles Tiplady Pratt (1881: chapter 7, p. 89)

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th century (1880)

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007

Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967

Pratt, Charles Tiplady, The History of Cawthorne, Barnsley: I.W. Davis, 1882