Holme Lacy / Hamme

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Results: 11 records
angel - cherub - head - 4
design element - motifs - drapery
design element - motifs - floral - 4
design element - motifs - foliage
design element - motifs - moulding
design element - motifs - roll moulding
view of church exterior - southwest view
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of church interior - south aisle - looking east

Scene Description: with the 17th-century font in the foreground
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julian P Guffogg, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 December 2012 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3270495] [accessed 28 October 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font - southwest side
view of object
![a medieval mortar kept in the church interior [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1131031004_compressed.png)
Scene Description: a medieval mortar kept in the church interior [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pauline Eccles, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 July 2008 Pauline Eccles [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/892117] [accessed 28 October 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 09624HOL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Cuthbert [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: St. Cuthbert [aka Cubertus]
Church Location: Church Road, Holme Lacy, Herefordshire HR2 6LX
Country Name: England
Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the B4399, 6-7 km SE of Hereford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Historical Region: Hundred of Dinedor [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle, by the entrance to the N chapel
Century and Period: 17th century(late?), Restoration
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Timothy Marlow for his photograph of this font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There is an entry for Holme [Lacy] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO5535/holme-lacy/] [accessed 1 March 2015]; it reports a priest, a church and church lands in it. The present font here is described and illustrated in Herefordshire (1931-1934) as one of a few late fonts in this county that "deserve notice", this one decorated "with cherub heads and drapery", and (ibid.): "Font [...] with circular bowl carved with acanthus leaves and four cherub-heads with outspread wings, circular shaft carved with drapery and four rosettes, and moulded base, second half 17th-century." English Heritage [Listing NGR: SO5684734738] (1967) notes; " Font is late C17 with circular bowl on cyclindrical stem with moulded base. Stem has swags and rosettes; the bowl, cherubs. Round stone bowl with ears near entry into north chapel."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.0094,
-2.6301
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 0′ 33.84″ N,
2° 37′ 48.36″ W
UTM: 30U 525388 5762148
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Byrne, Matthew, Beautiful churches saved by The Churches Conservation Trust, London: Frances Lincoln, 2013
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1931-1934