Cawthorne No. 1 / Caltorne

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon

Scene Description: Side 3-- on sides 3b, 3c

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - 16

Scene Description: Side 1 -- four arches per side

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design element - motifs - plant

Scene Description: Side 1 -- right- and left-hand variations on sides: 1b, 1c, 2a, 2d, 3a, 3d, 4a, 4d

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design element - motifs - plant-scroll

Scene Description: Side 2-- on sides 2b. 2c

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design element - motifs - rope

Scene Description: on the four vertical corners of the basin

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symbol - cross - processional cross

Scene Description: Side 1 -- two identical crosses on side 1, another identical on side 4c, one similar on side 4b

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view of basin - interior - drain

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view of basin - side 1

Scene Description: Side 1-- a left- and a right-facing vine-like plant in the two centre panels (b-c) flanked by two processional crosses in the outer (a-d) panels

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view of basin - side 1

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view of basin - side 2

Scene Description: Side 2 -- Tree-of-life plants in the centre panels (b-c) and vine-like plants in outer panels (a-d)

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view of basin - side 2

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view of basin - side 3

Scene Description: Side 3 -- two dragons (?) in the centre panels (b-c) flanked by vine-like plants in the outer panels (a-d)

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view of basin - side 3

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view of basin - side 4

Scene Description: Side 4 -- two vine-like plants in the outer panels (a-d) and two processional crosses -not identical- in the centre panels (b-c)

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view of basin - side 4

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view of church exterior in context - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 March 2012 by Graham Hogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2846240] [accessed 31 October 2018]

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view of font in context

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view of iconographic program

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11047CAW

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints [medieval dedication: St. Michael]

Church Location: 2 Church Ln, Cawthorne, Barnsley S75 4DW, UK

Country Name: England

Location: South Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A635, about 30 km S of Leeds

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds

Historical Region: Hundred of Staincross -- formerly West Riding of Yorkshire

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the E end

Date: ca. 1080?

Century and Period: 11th century (late?), Pre-Conquest? / Norman

Cognate Fonts: somewhat similar to the font at Skelmanthorpe

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for the photographs of this font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Cawthorne [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE2807/cawthorne/] [accessed 31 October 2018]; it reports a priest and a church in it. Collingwood [cf. infra] writes: "In Cawthorne Church, at the east end, is a square font, brought from Cannon Hall; and a similar font is said to have come from High Hoyland, is at Skelmanthorpe [...]. Though the Skelmanthorpe font has not the dragons and crosses of the Cawthorne font, it shows a curious pair of heads taking the place of flowers on the tree-scrolls of two panels; and on two sides are intersected arcades [...] so that the date of these two fonts must be at the end of the eleventh at earliest. They seem to belong to the generation following the Norman Conquest" but, argues Collingwood (ibid.), the carvers of these two fonts must have executed the work before the Norman expertise and style had settled among the artisans of this region. The baptismal font at Cawthorne is roughly square in shape and the four sides appear decorated in a similar manner: the space is divided into four rectangular spaces, each with an added semicircumference atop, resembling thus an arcade of round arches, the arches loaded with motifs and/or symbols; side 1:a)processional cross; b)plant or tendril with clover-like leaves facing right; c)same but facing left; d)processional cross identical to the one in a) -- 2:a)identical to 1:c; b) and c)scroll plant or Tree of life, practically identical; d)identical to 1:b -- 3:a)identical to 1:c but badly damaged on the upper half; b)upside-down rampant dragon facing left, top of arch damaged; c) idem facing right, also damaged; d)identical to 1:b -- 4:a)identical to 1:c; b)processional cross, different from the others in that a broad base replaces the carrying pole; c)processional cross identical to 1:a and 1:d; d)identical to 1:b -- the vertical angles of the basin, though partly damaged, show an original decoration of rope (or braid?) motif; side 1 and 3 above have a notch at the centre of the upper rim, which may be related to an earlyy font cover or to its use as trough." [source: Collingwood, in www.huddersfield1.co.uk/huddersfield/tolson]. Noted in Pevsner (1986 c1967) as a baptismal font of the 11th century. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE2850307960] notes: "Church. C13, C15 and 1875-80 by Bodley and Garner. [...] Two small lancets and a small arched doorway to late C13 north chapel, in the east wall of which is built an Cll cross head with a raised central figure [...] There are 2 fonts the earliest, mid Cl1 (Ryder), is square with cable moulding at the edges. Each face has four sunken panels with relief decoration of crosses, vine scrolls and the west face has 2 beasts. The later font, C15, is octagonal and tapers downwards to sit on a pyramidal octagonal base. The bowl has raised figures on each of its outer faces." [cf. Index entry for Cawthorne no. 2 for the late-medieval font in this church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.5673, -1.570695

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 34′ 2.28″ N, 1° 34′ 14.5″ W

UTM: 30U 594656 5936331

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: square

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: not lined now

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Collingwood, W.G., Angles, Danes and Norse in the district of Huddersfield, [Huddersfield?]: [Kirklees Community History Service?], [s.d.]

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967