Lacock / Lacoc / Lacoh
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2019
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 11 August 2019)
Results: 4 records
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font of 1861 by Blomfield [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2018 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 11 August 2019)
view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: mid-19thC restoration by Blomfield
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ethan Doyle White, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2018 by Ethan Doyle White [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:View_of_St_Cyriac's_Church,_Lacock_from_the_southwestern_side_of_the_churchyard.jpg] [accessed 11 August 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church interior - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ethan Doyle White, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2018 by Ethan Doyle White [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nave_of_St_Cyriac's_Church,_Lacock_facing_Westward.jpg] [accessed 11 August 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of font and cover in context
![the modern font of 1861 by Blomfield [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1190811009_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the modern font of 1861 by Blomfield [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2018 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 11 August 2019)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13782LAC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated ?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Cyriac
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Cyricus [aka Cyriacus, Quiriac, Quiricus, Cyr]
Church Address: Church St, Lacock, Chippenham SN15 2LB, UK
Site Location: Wiltshire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A350, 6-7 km S of Chippenham
Historical Region: Hundred of Chippenham
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 14thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Lacock [variant spellings] in the Domesday surveu [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST9168/lacock/] [accessed 11 August 2019], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The 1844 Catalogue of the manuscript maps, charts, plans […] of the British Museum lists a "Drawing, in Indian ink, of the circular stone font at Lacock Church; by S.H. Grimm, in August 1790 […] with a duplicate drawing in pencil (P.R. Kaye, IV. 495)". The present font, however, belongs to the 19th-century restoration of the church, as noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975) : "Font. Very Gothic, of stone, given by Sir Arthur Blomfield, when he restored the church in 1861." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST9170968569] notes: "Anglican parish church, mostly C15 with some C14 elements, restored 1861 by A.W. Blomfield and chancel rebuilt 1902-3 by H. Brakspear. [...] in nave font 1861 by Blomfield."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson for his photographs of the modern font here
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 561143 5696444
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.415906, -2.120742
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 24′ 57.26″ N, 2° 7′ 14.67″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- British Museum, Catalogue of the manuscript maps, charts, and plans, and of the topographical drawings in the British Museum, London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1844-, p. 300
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 284