Church Eaton
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design element - motifs - Greek key or fret
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Ron Baxter, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph in The Corpus of Rommanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/st/churc/index.htm] [accessed 26 March 2007]
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design element - motifs - sawtooth
design element - patterns - reeding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Ron Baxter, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph in The Corpus of Rommanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/st/churc/index.htm] [accessed 26 March 2007]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eirian Evans, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 March 2010 by Eirian Evans [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1788802] [accessed 14 June 2012]
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view of font - fragment
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Ron Baxter, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph in The Corpus of Rommanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/st/churc/index.htm] [accessed 26 March 2007]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of font - fragment
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Ron Baxter, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph in The Corpus of Rommanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/st/churc/index.htm] [accessed 26 March 2007]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 12871CHU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (fragment)
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Editha
Church Patron Saints: St. Editha [Eadgyth, Edgytha, Edith of Wilton, Ediva]
Church Location: High Street, Church Eaton, Staffordshire ST20 0AT
Country Name: England
Location: Staffordshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 10 km SW of Stafford, 10 km NW of Penkridge, near the county border with Shrops.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lichfield [formerly in the dioceses of Chester, and Coventry and Lichfield]
Font Location in Church: In the E end, N aisle
Date: ca. 1100?
Century and Period: 12th century (early?), Norman
Cognate Fonts: the font at Bradley
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008): "The working font is positioned under the tower arch, but there are remains of a 12thc. Font [...]. Four pieces of a carved font bowl roughly assembled with rubble and mortar for consolidation [...]" The CRSBI describes also the decorative elements on the fragments: reeding, sawtooth with an unusual spiral triangle, Greek key, etc., and suggests the fonts at Bradley (Staffs) and Lilleshall (Salop) as being of similar design: "The workshop apparently came from Gnosall, where the unusual spiral triangle sawtooth motif can be seen on a stringcourse, and similar chip-carvings on imposts. This sugests a date of c. 1100 or slightly afterwards for the Church Eaton font".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.755614, -2.226211
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 45′ 20.21″ N, 2° 13′ 34.36″ W
UTM: 30U 552222 5845366
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: fragments
Diameter (inside rim): 43 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 64 cm*
Basin Total Height: 76 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [all measurements a/p the remaing fragment; CRSBI (2008)]
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. Accessed: 2007-03-26 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.