Longdon nr. Lichfield
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design element - motifs - foliage - acanthus
Scene Description: forming a wreath-like pattern all around
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 21 August 2013 by Juan Antonio Olañeta for BSI
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design element - motifs - palmette
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design element - patterns - ribbed - diagonal
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view of church exterior - north view
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view of church exterior - northwest end
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church exterior - west tower
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view of church interior - chancel and nave - looking west
Scene Description: photograph taken from the east end -- the top of the font is visible at the far back, partly covered by the additional altar
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of church interior - nave - northwest corner
Scene Description: the door opening in the north wall (into the vestry?)
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view of church interior - nave - south doorway
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view of font
![notice that at the time of this drawing [mid-19th century?] the foliated block rested directly on the ground](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0040714009_compressed.png)
Scene Description: notice that at the time of this drawing [mid-19th century?] the foliated block rested directly on the ground
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The William Salt Library, Stafford, 2004
Image Source: Drawing [1826] by John Chesshall Buckler, in the William Salt Library, Stafford -- Image copyright © William Salt Library Photograph [ca. 1950-1955] -- courtesy of the Staffordshire Past Track, Staffordshire Arts and Museum Service [for copyright details and conditions of use refer to www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/copyright.asp]
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view of font and cover
![notice that at the time of this drawing [mid-19th century?] the foliated block rested directly on the ground](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0040714010_compressed.png)
Scene Description: notice that at the time of this drawing [mid-19th century?] the foliated block rested directly on the ground
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The William Salt Library, Stafford, 2004
Image Source: Drawing [1826] by John Chesshall Buckler, in the William Salt Library, Stafford -- Image copyright © William Salt Library Photograph [ca. 1950-1955] -- courtesy of the Staffordshire Past Track, Staffordshire Arts and Museum Service [for copyright details and conditions of use refer to www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/copyright.asp]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the moulded lower base is a modern addition; in the mid-19th century the foliated block rested directly on the ground
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2013 by Juan Antonio Olañeta for BSI
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view of font and cover in context
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2013 by Juan Antonio Olañeta for BSI
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INFORMATION
FontID: 09838LON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James the Great
Church Patron Saints: St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Church Location: Longdon, Staffordshire, WS15 4PS
Country Name: England
Location: Staffordshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the A51, 5 km NW of Lichfield (dir. Rigeley-Stafford)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lichfield
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th - 14th century [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Staffordshire Past Track, Staffordshire Arts and Museum Service, for their images of this font; and to Juan Antonio Olañeta for his photographs of this church and font
Font Notes:
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Two nineteenth-century illustrations of this font are listed in entries of the William Salt Library, Stafford [www.staffordshire.gov.uk/live/pdf/archives/fis-lei.pdf]: 1)reference SV VII.41 (45/9305): sepia drawing dated 1843, by 'J.B.' [John Buckley] -- 6 in. x 6 in. "'Font in Longdon Church.' showing a tub-shaped font with a band of carving under the rim, and a carved wreath at the base. The body is decorated by a design of diagonal ribs." -- 2)SV.VII.42 (45/9306): sepia wash drawing dated 8 September 1842, by 'A.E. Everitt.' "'Font in Longdon Church.' Showing a tub-shaped font with a band of carving under the rim, and a carved wreath at the base. The body is decorated by a design of diagonal ribs." This font appears to be a composite object consisting of two parts from differenet periods; the cylindrical basin, decorated a band of palmette motif around the upper basin side, and a diagonal ribbed or piped pattern below, may be late-Norman, whereas the narrower, but also cylindrical, pedestal base shows a deeply-cut foliated pattern dating from more than a century later, and said locally to have been recovered from the old cathedral of Lichfield; the two blocks have been mounted on a moulded lower base of modern manufacture [NB: the two 19th-century illustrations above show the medieval foliated block resting directly on the ground; the round lower base with the three roll mouldings is modern]. The basin interior is lead-lined. The oak cover is round and flat, with carved upper surface and a metal ring handle; appears modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.724936, -1.879729
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 43′ 29.77″ N, 1° 52′ 47.02″ W
UTM: 30U 575657 5842261
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th century?
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]