Siddington nr. Macclesfield / Sudendune
Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2006
Standing permission
Results: 5 records
design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled - in a quatrefoil - 8
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Craig Thornber [www.thornber.net]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Craig Thornber [www.thornber.net]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "All Saints Siddington. The parish church with earliest known reference in 1474. The timber-framed structure was replaced in the eighteenth century by the present brick-built structure."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Turner, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 January 2003 by Peter Turner [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2685938] [accessed 3 March 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font is visible on the left
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Howard Selina, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 October 2007 by Howard Selina [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/576539] [accessed 3 March 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Craig Thornber [www.thornber.net]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 12162SID
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Pexhill Road, Siddington, Cheshire, SK11 9JP
Country Name: England
Location: Cheshire, North West
Directions to Site: Located on the B5392, off (W) the A34, WSW of Macclesfield
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chester
Historical Region: Hundred of Hamestan [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, towards the W end, S side
Century and Period: 15th century / 19th century, Perpendicular? / Victorian?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Craig Thornber, of www.thornber.net, for the photograph of this font.
Church Notes: ancient chapelry in the parish of Prestbury, St. Peter -- "chapel at Siddington in 1337 and again in 1474. It was consecrated for preaching in 1521" [http://openbuildings.com/buildings/all-saints-church-siddington-profile-11198] [accessed 3 March 2015]
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Siddington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SJ8470/siddington/] [accessed 3 March 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. English Heritage [Listing NGR: SJ8462670833] (1967) gives the original date of the present church as " Late C16, largely enclosed in brick shell of c1815"; it does not mention a font in it. The present baptismal font consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with deeply-cut quatrefoil windows-within-quatrefoils; the upper rim is chamfered, and the underbowl is graded; raised on a plain octagonal stem and a splaying octagonal lower base. Octagonal plinth. Round wooden cover with metal decorations and handle. The font appears to be a Victorian replica of a Perpendicular font. Or is it really 15th-century?
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.2343, -2.2317
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 14′ 3.48″ N, 2° 13′ 54.12″ W
UTM: 30U 551281 5898610
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]