Weedon Lois / Lois Weedon / Loys' Weedon / Wedone / Weedon Pinkney / Weedon St. Loys
Image copyright © Peter Austin, 2006
Standing permission
Results: 8 records
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Austin, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2006 by Peter Austin [http://www.flickr.com/photos/53366513@N00/176863573/]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - lunette - beaded-tape
Scene Description: notice the difference between the re-carved left panel and the original right panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Austin, 2006
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 25 June 2006 by Peter Austin [http://www.flickr.com/photos/53366513@N00/176863573/]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - palmette
Scene Description: inscribed in the beaded-tape lunettes
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Austin, 2006
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 25 June 2006 by Peter Austin [http://www.flickr.com/photos/53366513@N00/176863573/]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: the foliage proper in the spandrels formed by the lunettes; it extends in a scalloped pattern over and under the lower moulding all around the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Austin, 2006
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 25 June 2006 by Peter Austin [http://www.flickr.com/photos/53366513@N00/176863573/]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - scallop
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Austin, 2006
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 25 June 2006 by Peter Austin [http://www.flickr.com/photos/53366513@N00/176863573/]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior in context - east view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church and Cottage, Weedon Lois. The ecclesiastical parish calls itself Lois Weedon (as opposed to Weedon Lois). This is St Mary and St Peter's church."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrew Smith, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 March 2006 by Andrew Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/143103] [accessed 19 November 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Ron Baxter in CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1344/] [accessed 19 November 2015]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lynn Medicott, 2009
Image Source: drawing by Lynn Medlicott in Sue Edwards' brief on-line version of Kathleen Lewis' A Village History [http://www.st-loys.northants.sch.uk/village%20information.htm] [accessed 6 May 2009]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12311WEE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1140-1150?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid?) [re-cut], Medieval [altered]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Workshop from St Peter's, Northampton
Cognate Fonts: fonts at Tiffield, Dodford, Paulerspury and Maids' Moreton
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin & St. Peter [may have shared originally a dedication with St. Lucien, aka Lois, Loys]
Church Address: 2A High Street, Weedon Lois NN12 8PU, UK
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A43, 8-9 km W of Towcester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Foxley [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: altered font: re-cut / re-tooled
Font Notes:
Click to view
There is an entry for Weedon [Lois] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP6046/weedon-lois/] [accessed 19 November 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Maguire (1970) includes this font in a group the decoration of which appear to be related to that on a fragment from St Andrew's Priory. In Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Circular, Norman. At the top hanging lunettes, beaded and with leaf inside (cf. Dodford)." The CRSBI (2015) notes this as a font "of the lively workshop from St Peter's, Northampton, active in the 1140s and '50s. Other fonts by these sculptors are found in the county at Green's Norton, Paulerspury, Dodford, Tiffield and Weedon Lois, and nearby at Maids' Moreton (Bucks)." The re-cutting or re-tooling, except for two of the lunettes, mentioned in the CRSBI is quite evident.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 628467 5775734
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.1172, -1.1237
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 7′ 1.92″ N, 1° 7′ 25.32″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 9 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 66 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 84 cm*
Basin Total Height: 37 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 105 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2015)
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century
Material: wood
Apparatus: yes; pulley
Notes: Victorian font cover; tall and conical, with foliated finial
REFERENCES
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Maguire, Henry P., "A twelfth century workshop in Northampton", 9, 1 (1970), Gesta, 1970, pp. 11-25; p. 17-19
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 449