Tytherton Lucas

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Results: 11 records

B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - pointed over-arches - bead

Scene Description: the bead is inside the over-arch

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BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: several, forming the bottom of the basin

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BBL01: design element - patterns - zigzag

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BBL02: design element - patterns - fluted - with outer tongue

Scene Description: the flutes are quite wide and opened at the top

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BBU01: design element - patterns - sawtooth

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view of church exterior

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view of church interior - looking east

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: The font appears though the squint on the right, near the north entrance door

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Carol Myers, 2004

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10206TYT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located 3 km E of Chippenham
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W of the entrance, N side
Date: ca. 1150? / ca. 1250?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [re-tooled?], Late Norman? / Transitional? [altered]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, and to Carol Myers, of www.stnicholascenter.org, for the photographs of, and other information on this font -- Wilkes suggests a date for the font ca. 1250.
Buck (1950) classes this font in a Wiltshire group [Ditteridge, Biddestone, Tytherton Lucas, Staton St. Quintin, Winterbourne Monkton and Donhead St. Mary] defined as 'unmounted circular tub fonts' from the 'Middle Norman' period of ca. 1100-1150: "Here the ornamentation is more varied, and covers the whole of the sides; it consists of five bands -- sawtooth, zigzag, arcading, zigzag and 'coniferous' pockets. The moulded base shows it is late in the group, c. 1150." Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Circular, Norman, tub-shaped. The decorative motifs of fluting and gabled arches are uncommon, and perhaps the result of re-tooling." Described in the local guide: "The tub-shaped Norman font is of the mid-12th century." The monolithic font is round with tapering sides and rests directly on a plinth; the ornamentation is busy and rather unusual in this area of Wiltshire: at the upper rim side a band of saw-tooth; in the middle of the tall sides a blind arcade of round arches topped with pointed over arches that contain a bead each; below the arcade is band of zig-zag, followed down by a band of odd motif resembling a wide flute with a rectangular insert on the front; at the very bottom several thin mouldings; one of the sides of the basin is badly damaged. Flat wooden cover with know finial; very worn, perhaps old if original. The whole is raised on a hexagonal plinth. [We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, and to Carol Myers, of www.stnicholascenter.org, for the photographs of, and other information on this font -- Wilkes suggests a date for the font ca. 1250]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: unknown
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: difficult to judge from the sources; could be quite old

REFERENCES

Buck, A.G. Randle, "Some Wiltshire fonts. Part I", LIII, CXCIII (December 1950), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1950, pp. 458-470; r["References"]
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912