Lichfield No. 2 / Chad-Stowe / Lecefelle / Lichfield St Chad / Stow St. Chad / Stowe

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design element - motifs - foliage

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Image Source: 1824 drawing by J.C. Buckler in the Willaim Salt Library: 'Font in Saint Chad's Church, Lichfield,' showing an octagonal, panelled font of the 'perpendicular' type. Artist: 'J. C. B.,' [John Chessell Buckler.] [www.views.staffspasttrack.org.uk/engine/resource/default.asp?resource=8843] [accessed 31 July 2011]

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design element - motifs - tracery

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Image Source: 1824 drawing by J.C. Buckler in the Willaim Salt Library: 'Font in Saint Chad's Church, Lichfield,' showing an octagonal, panelled font of the 'perpendicular' type. Artist: 'J. C. B.,' [John Chessell Buckler.] [www.views.staffspasttrack.org.uk/engine/resource/default.asp?resource=8843] [accessed 31 July 2011]

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symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - 8

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © William Salt Library, 2011

Image Source: 1824 drawing by J.C. Buckler in the Willaim Salt Library: 'Font in Saint Chad's Church, Lichfield,' showing an octagonal, panelled font of the 'perpendicular' type. Artist: 'J. C. B.,' [John Chessell Buckler.] [www.views.staffspasttrack.org.uk/engine/resource/default.asp?resource=8843] [accessed 31 July 2011]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Kelly, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 November 2017 by Dave Kelly [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5916812] [accessed 15 July 2019]

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "The view across Stowe Pool to St Chads Church, Lichfield."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gordon Griffiths, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 August 2015 by Gordon Griffiths [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4645880] [accessed 15 July 2019]

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view of church interior - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bs0u10e01, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 June 2014 by Bs0u10e01 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StChadLichfield.JPG] [accessed 15 July 2019]

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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © William Salt Library, 2011

Image Source: 1824 drawing by J.C. Buckler in the Willaim Salt Library: 'Font in Saint Chad's Church, Lichfield,' showing an octagonal, panelled font of the 'perpendicular' type. Artist: 'J. C. B.,' [John Chessell Buckler.] [www.views.staffspasttrack.org.uk/engine/resource/default.asp?resource=8843] [accessed 31 July 2011]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 17506LIC
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Chad
Church Patron Saints: St. Chad [aka, Ceaadda, Cedd, Ceoddi]
Church Location: St Chads Rd, Lichfield WS13 7ND, UK -- Tel.: +44 1543 416595
Country Name: England
Location: Staffordshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Lichfield is located at the A5192-A38-A51-A515 crossroads, 25 km N of Birmingham -- this church is located off St Chads Rd, by the NE end of Stowes Pool, in the NE suburbs, near Curborough and Elmhurst
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lichfield
Historical Region: Hundred of Offlow
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S aisle
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
There is an entry for this Lichfield [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK1109/lichfield/] [accessed 15 July 2019]; it reports five priests, but not a church in it, though there must have been one there. Harwood (1806) notes: "the font is very ancient". A 1824 sepia drawing of the 15th-century font by J.C. Bucklercan be found at the William Salt Library. Lewis (1848) notes that this parish church "by far the oldest in Lichfield, was rebuilt on the site of an ancient one erected by Bishop Headda, in honour of St. Chad, and near his hermitage." The Victoria County History (Stafford, 1990) dates the nave to the 12th century and informs that "In 1925 the 15th-century font was moved from its position in the nave near the south door to a baptistery formed at the west end of the south aisle at the expense of Lord Charnwood, who lived at Stowe House." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK1220410209] notes: "Church. C12, C13 arcades and alterations to gabled south aisle, late C13 tower and east window, 1660s clerestory, 1840 lean-to north aisle, and 1862 porch, chancel roof and vestry [...] south aisle has C15 font with panelled stem and shields in quatrefoils." The Perpendicular font consists of an octagonal basin decorated with a blank shield-in-quatrefoil on each of the sides, foliage around the underbowl; raised on an octagonal pedestal base with two-up-two-down pairs of trefoiled arches/windows on the sides; moulded splaying lower base, also octagonal. [NB: we have no information on the earlier medieval font of this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.689373, -1.820925
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 41′ 21.74″ N, 1° 49′ 15.33″ W
UTM: 30U 579693 5838369

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-07-26 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Harwood, Thomas, Revd., The History and Antiquities of the church and city of Lichfield: containing [...], Glocester [sic]: Printed for Cadell and Davies, London, by Jos. Harris, 1806
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of Wales, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1833