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design element - motifs - Greek key or fret (P-fret)

Scene Description: the fourth of five bands of motif around the basin side

Image Source: Staffordshire Past Track, Staffordshire Arts and Museum Service [www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/] Photograph [ca. 1930-1931]

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design element - motifs - floral, foliage or star - 8-points

Scene Description: the fifth and broadest of five bands of motif around the basin side

Image Source: Staffordshire Past Track, Staffordshire Arts and Museum Service [www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/] Photograph [ca. 1930-1931]

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design element - motifs - geometric

Scene Description: the third of five bands of motif around the basin side

Image Source: Staffordshire Past Track, Staffordshire Arts and Museum Service [www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/] Photograph [ca. 1930-1931]

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design element - motifs - rectangle

Scene Description: the second of five bands of motif around the basin side

Image Source: Staffordshire Past Track, Staffordshire Arts and Museum Service [www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/] Photograph [ca. 1930-1931]

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: the uppermost of five bands of motif around the basin side

Image Source: Staffordshire Past Track, Staffordshire Arts and Museum Service [www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/] Photograph [ca. 1930-1931]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 June 2004 by Geoff Pick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/119522] [accessed 15 August 2018]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph by Ron Baxter in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/896/image/feature/10910/] [accessed 15 August 2018]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph by Ron Baxter in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/896/image/feature/10910/] [accessed 15 August 2018]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph by Ron Baxter in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/896/image/feature/10910/] [accessed 15 August 2018]

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view of font in context

Image Source: Staffordshire Past Track, Staffordshire Arts and Museum Service [www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/] Photograph [ca. 1930-1931]

Copyright Instructions: Permission received (email of 6 January 2005)

INFORMATION

FontID: 09833BRA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary and All Saints

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & All Saints

Church Location: Church Ln, Bradley, Stafford ST18 9DB, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Staffordshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A518, 7 km SSW of Stafford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lichfield

Historical Region: Hundred of Cuttlestone

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for this Bradley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SJ8717/bradley/] [accessed 15 August 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A sepia drawing of a font here done in 1842 by John Buckler is now at the William Salt Library. White's Directory of Staffordshire (1851) notes: "The font is of Saxon design but Norman construction." [source: www.genuki.og.uk/big/eng/STS/Bradley/]. Described and illustrated in the Staffordshire Past Track [www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/]: "The font is also Norman, with Greek key decoration." Noted in the Historic Churches Preservation Trust, Recent Grants [...] 16 March 2006 [www.historicchurches.org.uk] as a "High Tub Norman font". The entry for this church in Histporic England [Source ID: 1319799] notes: "C12 tub font with unusually lavish carved friezes including a key pattern and a cable moulding." The CRSBI (2008) mentions the fonts at Bradley (Staffs) and Lilleshall (Salop) as being of similar design as the one in Church Eaton: "The workshop apparently came from Gnosall, where the unusual spiral triangle sawtooth motif can be seen on a stringcourse, and similar chip-carvings on imposts. This sugests a date of c. 1100 or slightly afterwards for the Church Eaton font". Of this font in particular the CRSBI (2018) writes: "Set under the W tower. The bowl is cylindrical with chip-carved decoration in bands. It is set on a modern base and step. At the bottom of the bowl is a broad band decorated with eight-pointed stars in rectangles. Above this is a band of Greek key meander, and next a zone of interlocking spiral right-angled triangles, issuing from thin fillets at the top and bottom of the zone and forming a design of rectangles divided diagonally. Above this is a band of tall rectangles, then a row of flat single cable between fillets. At the top is a plain band forming the rim. The bowl is lead lined, and there are staples set in the rim at N and S and losses to the rim at the N and the SW [...] The badly damaged font at Church Eaton shows all the same motifs as this one in the same sequence, and must have been identical in design. Whether it was similar in size too is difficult to judge, since the pieces have been assembled wrongly."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.764, -2.19

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 45′ 50.4″ N, 2° 11′ 24″ W

UTM: 30U 554655 5846326

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: tub-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

Rim Thickness: 12 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 51 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 75 cm*

Basin Total Height: 70 cm*

Notes on Measurements: CRSBI (2018)

REFERENCES

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. Accessed: 2007-03-26 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

White, William, History, Gazetter and Directory of Staffordshire [...], Sheffield: Printed for the author by R. Leader, 1851