Siddington nr. Cirencester / Sudintone / Suintone
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Results: 19 records
design element - motifs - ball, bead or pellet
Scene Description: a beaded line below the trellis
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 31 July 1981 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
design element - motifs - rope - double
Scene Description: all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 31 July 1981 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
design element - motifs - sawtooth
Scene Description: a band around the bottom end of the basin side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 31 July 1981 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
design element - motifs - vine
Scene Description: a band of, below the upper double-rope pattern
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 31 July 1981 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
design element - patterns - diaper
Scene Description: within the 3-strand trellis pattern
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 1981 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
design element - patterns - ribbed - diagonal
Scene Description: a band of, between the line of beads at the top and the saw-tooth at the bottom
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 31 July 1981 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
design element - patterns - trellis
Scene Description: all around, the trelis with 3-strand beaded tape -- notice the flaw in the shape of the stone on the right side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 1981 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
view of church exterior - south portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "The Norman south doorway to the church, decorated with beak-head and cable mouldings. The tympanum shows Christ in Majesty and two figures said to be St Peter and the donor."
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1883 (?) by Henry Taunt; in the Henry W Taunt Collection, English Heritage [http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/gallery/450/CC9/CC97_2973.jpg] [accessed 3 March 2015]
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view of church exterior - south portal - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in John Wilkes and Allan Taylor [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alan Longbottom, 2007
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1974 by Alan Longbottom [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/392909] [accessed 3 March 2015] [accessed 3 March 2015]
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view of church exterior - tympanum
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in John Wilkes and Allan Taylor [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church exterior - tympanum - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in John Wilkes and Allan Taylor [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church exterior - west tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph in John Wilkes and Allan Taylor [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior in context - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Looking from the north west with farm buildings in the foreground. The church is Norman in origin with alterations in the medieval period and restoration by Woodyer in 1864."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © English Heritage NMR, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1883 (?) by Henry Taunt; in the Henry W Taunt Collection, English Heritage [http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/gallery/450/CC9/CC97_3012.jpg] [accessed 3 March 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: with the font and cover visible on the left, opposite the south door -- Source caption: "Looking east along the nave with the north arcade and aisle of circa 1470 visible to the left. The church has Norman origins but was altered in the medieval period and restored by Woodyer in 1864."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © English Heritage NMR, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1883 by Henry Taunt; in the Henry W Taunt Collection, English Heritage [http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/gallery/450/CC9/CC97_54014.jpg] [accessed 3 March 2015]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cotswold District Council, 2006
Image Source: reproduction of an undated postcard in Cotswold District Council (Cirencester, Gloucs.), Cotswolds Museum [www.cotswold.gov.uk]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © English Heritage NMR, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1883 by Henry Taunt; in the Henry W Taunt Collection, English Heritage [http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/gallery/450/CC9/CC97_3014.jpg] [accessed 3 March 2015]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the cover appears raised in the photograph
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph in John Wilkes and Allan Taylor [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 1981 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
INFORMATION
FontID: 12485SID
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Siddington, Gloucestershire, GL7 6EZ
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located just SE of Cirencester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Cirencester [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, opposite the S doorway
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of The Gloucestershire Photo Library [www.allthecotswolds.com], and to Timothy Marlow, for their photographs of this church and font.
Church Notes: there is a funny detail on the arch of the south doorway inner arch: the semicircle is decorated with the beaked masks/faces found often on Norman portals but one of them here has developed arms and the hands are grabbing the beaks on the two masks adjacent. Much in the style of Iffley St Mary's western portal
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for this Siddington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SU0299/siddington/] [accessed 3 March 2015], with one priest each mentioned for the parts in the lordship of Hascoit Musard and Emma, the mother of Roger of Lacy. Tymms (1834) lists a font here. Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Norman. Constructed like a tall cylinder (slightly squashed). Between the herringbone band and acanthus scroll at the top and cable and saw pattern at the bottom are diagonally interlace tripartite bands with raised diamonds between the interlacings. Tall cylindrical unmounted basin, the sides decorated with a braid [or double rope, each level going in different directions] moulding at the upper rim; below it a vine motif all around; the rest of the surface on the sides is decorated with a geometric interlace forming a diaper pattern; at the lower end is a row of little beads, another of diagonal ribbing and a third band of sawtooth (?); the inner well of the basin is lead lined.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.700354, -1.95119
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 42′ 1.27″ N, 1° 57′ 4.28″ W
UTM: 30U 572480 5728232
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (unmonted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead lining
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Tymms, Samuel, Family Topographer, being a compendious account of the antient and present state of the counties of England: vol. IV, Oxford circuit, London: Nichols & Son, 1834
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002