Sutton St. Michael / Sudtune / Sutton St. Michael and St. Nicholas / Sutune / Suttune / Svdtvne / Svtvne

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animal - mammal - lion - sejant

Scene Description: on the NE side of the base

Image Source: digital photograph 12 April 2016 by Ron Baxter, in the The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=12701.] [accessed 31 December 2022]

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animal - mammal - lion - sejant

Scene Description: one of four

animal - mammal - lion - sejant

Scene Description: one of four

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 12 April 2016 by Ron Baxter, in the The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=12701.] [accessed 31 December 2022]

animal - mammal - lion - sejant

Scene Description: one of four

animal - mammal - lion - sejant

Scene Description: one of four

animal - mammal - lion - sejant - 4

Scene Description: four half-figures of lions set at 90-degree angles of the base

Image Source: Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. II: pl. 54)

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Michael, Sutton. Still in frequent use and very well cared for. The building's Norman origins are clear to see."

Image Source: digital photograph 13 November 2010 by Philip Pankhurst, in Geograph [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2160448] [accessed 31 December 2022]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Michael, Sutton. Church building"

Image Source: digital photograph 13 November 2010 by Philip Pankhurst, in Geograph [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2160462] [accessed 31 December 2022]

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view of font

Image Source: Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. II: pl. 54)

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view of font - southwest side

Scene Description: notice the graffitti at the top side

INFORMATION

FontID: 09669SUT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael

Church Location: Ordis Ct, Sutton St Nicholas, Hereford HR1 3AY, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1568 797863

Country Name: England

Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off the A465, in Sutton St Nicholas, about 6 km NE of Hereford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford

Historical Region: Hundred of Tornelaus [in Domesday] / Hundred of Broxash

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NW corner of the nave

Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Norman

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for Sutton St. Michael and St. Nicholas [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/sutton-st-michael-and-st-nicholas/] [accessed 31 December 2022], none of which mention a church in it; one of the holdings had "Spirtes the priest" as lord in 1066 but was replaced by "Nigel the doctor" in 1086. A font here is described and illustrated in Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. II: 179 and pl. 54) [https://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/heref/vol2/pp177-182] [accessed 31 December 2022]: "Font [...]: round bowl curving inwards at the base, necking, and cylindrical stem with four half-figures of lions projecting from base, late 12th-century." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SO5264845824 ] notes: "Former parish church. Mainly C12, restored c1865 and 1909 [...] Two fonts, one C12 with round bowl, cyclindrical stem and four carved lions with emphasis on their fur on the base; the other on the south-east nave window cill, is a small c1645 urn-shaped font with a gadrooned rim supported by a C15 (?) angel holding a book [...] Corbel head, C14 (?), re-set high up on west wall of nave above C12 font. The parishes of Sutton St Michael and Sutton St Nicholas were united in 1876." Listed and illustrated in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=12701] [accessed 31 December 2022]: "At the W end of the nave on the N side. A roughly tooled, tub-shaped sandstone bowl stands on a stem with a roll at the top. This stands on a conical base decorated with lions at the NW, NE, SE and SW, and on an octagonal step. The bowl is unlined and the rim generally worn and damaged, but smoothly repaired and showing no obvious lock marks. All four lions around the base are shown frontally and bust-length. Some are damaged to the head, but where heads remain they have round eyes surrounded by a continuous ridge for the lids, small ears, a long straight snout and an open mouth displaying fangs. The body is simply four rows of hook-ended tufts representing the mane, and this is flanked by front legs. Individual differences, usually of condition, are noted below [...] The bowl of the font was recovered from the garden of a house on the road to Sutton St Nicholas and returned to the church. According to Marshall [G. “Fonts in Herefordshire”, Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, II (1950), 21-22], it is made of local Withington sandstone, like the font at Sutton St Nicholas, and the lions are similar to those at the base of the Hereford Cathedral font and are evidently made by the same mason. Marshall dates it c.1140."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.108579, -2.693235

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 6′ 30.88″ N, 2° 41′ 35.65″ W

UTM: 30U 521009 5773159

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Number of Pieces: two?

Font Shape: tub-shaped (rounded)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 9.25 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 47.5 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 66 cm*

Basin Total Height: 51.5 cm*

Height of Base: 53.5 cm [calculated: 31 cm* + 22.5 cm*]

Font Height (less Plinth): 105 cm [calculated]

Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI

REFERENCES

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1931-1934