Bayton / Baynton / Bayntune / Bedtona / Bertona / Betune / Beyton
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view of font - east side
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design element - motifs - braid - 2-strand
Scene Description: or rope motif
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2007
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design element - motifs - scroll
Scene Description: the upper part of it appears to have been cut off
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: in the loops of the scroll
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2007
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design element - motifs - foliage
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 June 2007 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/465485] [accessed 22 October 2014]
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view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Derek Harper, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 July 2006 by Derek Harper [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/205241] [accessed 22 October 2014]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 June 2007 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/465482] [accessed 22 October 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the font in the foreground
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jonathan Billinger, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 October 2013 by Jonathan Billinger [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3723974] [accessed 22 October 2014]
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view of font - side 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain ad Ireland, 2014
Image Source: B&W photograph in the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/239/] [accessed 22 October 2014]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 09706BAY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: the fonts at Rock & Linley, in Shropshire [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Bartholomew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Bartholomew
Church Address: Bayton, Worcestershire DY14 9LW
Site Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A456, about 15 km WSW of Kiddeminster
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Doddingtree
Additional Comments: damaged font: the upper rim may have been cut off due to damage resulting from cover staples
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Bayton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO6973/bayton/] [accessed 22 October 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Miller (1890) notes on the church: "There are a few features of Norman work still to be seen", but does not mention a font in it. The font here is described in Andrews (1912): "Fine font of the early period. Round the base of the bowl are two rows of rope-moulding, and the bowl itself is ornamented with intertwined strap-mouldings thickly studded with rows of pellets, the curves filled up with loops in the form of flowers. On the stem are zigzag panels and scalloped-shaped ornaments." The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "The walls of the nave and western portion of the chancel are probably of the 12th century, to which date the south doorway of the nave belongs. [...] The font is an extremely fine example of mid12th-century work. The bowl is circular, and measures about 2 ft. 10½ in diameter by 9 in. in depth. The side is enriched with a running strap ornament, carved with considerable elaboration, and below this is a heavy cable mould. The stem is also circular, diminishing slightly at the bottom, and is sculptured with formal foliage in low relief." In Pevsner (1968): "Drum-shaped, Norman, similar to the font at Rock. With beaded long scrolls and a rope-moulding. Short stem with long, ribbed leaves [fn: Mr Stratford compares with Linley in Shropshire and abaci at Leominster in Herefordshire]". Brooks & Pevsner (2007) add the font at Rock in Shropshire as cognate. Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2014), where the damage is described: "on its N side at the rim, probably caused by the removal of an old locking lid; this seems to have led to the cutting down of the rim, thus losing the tops of the scrolls".
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 537128 5800773
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.355985, -2.454831
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 21′ 21.55″ N, 2° 27′ 17.39″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 12 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 59 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 87 cm* / 86.5 cm**
Basin Depth: 22.75 cm**
Basin Total Height: 70 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2014) -- ** [VCH ]
LID INFORMATION
Notes: damage to the rim was probably incurred during the removal of cover staples
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Andrews, Francis Baugh, Memorials of Old Worcestershire, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1912, p. 106
- Brooks, Alan, Worcestershire, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 126
- 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. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890, vol. 2: 308
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Worcestershire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968, p. 75