Holetown / Saint James / St. James Town
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view of font
Scene Description: the inscription, not visible in this image, is on the moulding at the opposite end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2013 by John Wilkes for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches - columns with capitals and bases
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2013 by John Wilkes for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Haloglow, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 17 December 2008 by Haloglow [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_james_front.jpg] [accessed 3 December 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2013 by John Wilkes for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Haloglow, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 17 December 2008 by Haloglow [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_james_interior_view.jpg] [accessed 3 December 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: notice the running inscription on the lower side of the font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Reed College and Laura Leibman, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Laura Leibman [http://cdm.reed.edu] [accessed 3 December 2013]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12335HOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1684
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(late), Restoration / Stuart
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James, Holetown
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the S entranceway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James
Church Notes: "The first church of the English settlers, who arrived at this location in 1627, is aptly named St. James, for the saint and the king of that time, James I. It is noted for the round tower with its spiral staircase and 1684 baptismal font" [source: http://travel.aol.com/travel-guide/St+James+Parish+Church-Barbados-attractions--Barbados:164:232102 [accessed 9 February 2009]]
Church Address: Hwy 1, Holetown, Barbados, West Indies -- Tel.: +1 246-422-4117
Site Location: St. James, Barbados, Central America
Directions to Site: Located in the old part of town, the colonial quarter
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Barbados
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Nelson (2008). Monolithic tub-shaped font in the style of 12th-century Norman fonts: a quasy cylindrical basin with intersecting round arches all around, raised on a round stumpy lower base; the main variation in design here is the octagonal moulding that forms the rim of the inner well, and the shallowness of the well; there is an inscription around the rim with the date of the font, 1684. The wooden cover is conical, in a style popular in 17th-century Britain, but we have no confirmation of its date.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes for his photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 21P 214050 1459281
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Location: on the moulded upper rim around the inner basin well
Inscription Text: "[…] Anno 1684 […]"
Inscription Notes: partial text only
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: conical wooden font cover
REFERENCES
- Nelson, Louis P., The Beauty of holiness: Anglicanism & architecture in colonial South Carolina, Chapel Hill: The University of Noth Carolina Press, 2008, p.. 91 fig. 2.37