Hepple / West Hepple?

Results: 3 records

B01: design element - architectural - arcade - round arches

B01: human figure

Scene Description: several

B02: human figure - male - bearded - standing

Scene Description: one of several figures inside the arches

INFORMATION

FontID: 09865HEP
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Christ Church
Church Patron Saints: Jesus Christ
Country Name: England
Location: Northumberland, North East
Directions to Site: Located on the B6341, 4-5 km E of Rothbury, 20 km SE of Ailnwick
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NW corner of the nave
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century [altered font?], Pre-Conquest? / Norman? [altered]
Font Notes:
Noted in Mackenzie (1825) who is quoted verbatim in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51026#s5] [accessed 21 January 2010] notes: "Upon a fine summit called the Kirk Hill, about half a mile west of Hepple, stood a chapel, the remains of which were removed about the year 1760", but does not mention a font. A 1920 source 'Thropton to Harbotle' [http://www.oldandsold.com/articles32n/northumbria-30.shtml] [accessed 21 January 2010] notes: "About half a mile west of Hepple, on Kirkhill, an ancient chapel stood, the remains of which were removed in 1760 to build a farmhouse. The baptismal font and pedestal were still in good preservation and are now at the neighbouring farmhouse." Described in Pevsner (1957): "Very primitive Norman; cylindrical but with figures standing tightly under arches; only one of them -a bearded man- is still clearly visible." The Hepple Parish website [http://www.allsaintsrothbury.org.uk/main/page_our_churches_hepple_christ_church_hepple.html] [accessed 21 January 2010] notes: "Christ Church, Hepple, was founded by Sir Walter Buchanan-Riddell, originally as a chapel of ease to Rothbury Parish, and consecrated on 10 July 1893 by the Rt. Rev. Ernest Wilberforce, Bishop of Newcastle […] The font bowl is possibly of Saxon origin, and was brought from Kirkfield, West Hepple, the site of a former church. [The Newcastle Diocesan Gazetteer (1982), page 96.]". The West Hepple Farm website [www.georgefwhite.co.uk] [accessed 21 January 2010] notes: "Excavations in one of the farm’s fields in 1972 unearthed a font bowl, which was dated back to the Anglo Saxon period." The 'Keys to the past' websiteentry for Hepple [http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=N14569] [accessed 21 January 2010], however, refers to the found bowl as 12th-century. An unknown / untitled source of the Durham County Council records: "Figurative decoration of [...] 13th century date [...] can [...] be found on the Norman font from Hepple". [source: www.durham.gov.uk/durhamcc/usp.nsf/lookup/[...]]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

MacKenzie, Eneas, An historical, topographical, and descriptive view of the County of Northumberland, and of those parts of the County of Durham situated north of the river Tyne, with Berwick upon Tweed and […], Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed and published by Mackenzie and Dent […], 1825
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northumberland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1957