Lotherton cum Aberford / Hlohheringatun / Lotherington / Lothertoif / Lotherton Hall nr. Aberford / Louderton / Ludderton / Ludtherton / Luterington / Luteryngton / Lutherington / Lutherton / Lutrington / Lutryngton / Lutterton / Luttingtun

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animal - bird - peacock - 2 - facing each other - drinking from fountain or chalice

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2010 by dino_b [Diane Brennan] [www.flickr.com/photos/dianebrennan/4496376283/] [accessed 2 June 2012]

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animal - reptile - turtle - standing - 4

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Image Source: digital photograph in E&E Image Library [https://www.agefotostock.com/age/en/Stock-Images/Rights-Managed/HEZ-1236227] [accessed 30 October 2018]

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design element - architectural - arch - round arch - columns with capitals and bases - torsade columns

Scene Description: four of them at 90-degree angles? one has the two peacocks drinking from a fountain motif [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2010 by dino_b [Diane Brennan] [www.flickr.com/photos/dianebrennan/4496376283/] [accessed 2 June 2012]

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design element - motifs - floral

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2016 by Stephen Craven [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5066765] [accessed 30 October 2018]

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: of varied leaves [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2010 by dino_b [Diane Brennan] [www.flickr.com/photos/dianebrennan/4496376283/] [accessed 2 June 2012]

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design element - motifs - foliage

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2016 by Stephen Craven [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5066765] [accessed 30 October 2018]

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design element - motifs - fret

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2016 by Stephen Craven [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5066765] [accessed 30 October 2018]

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design element - motifs - moulding and piping

Scene Description: some rope, some fretted, etc. [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2010 by dino_b [Diane Brennan] [www.flickr.com/photos/dianebrennan/4496376283/] [accessed 2 June 2012]

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

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design element - patterns - reticular

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2016 by Stephen Craven [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5066765] [accessed 30 October 2018]

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design element - patterns - torsade

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2016 by Stephen Craven [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5066765] [accessed 30 October 2018]

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view of basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2010 by dino_b [Diane Brennan] [www.flickr.com/photos/dianebrennan/4496376283/] [accessed 2 June 2012]

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view of church exterior - portal

Scene Description: the chapel soon after the 1917 alterations

Image Source: photograph in Kirk (1920)

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view of church exterior - portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "Lotherton Chapel, Norman doorway. The original 12th century entrance to this simple building is now disused."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2016 by Stephen Craven [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5066737] [accessed 30 October 2018]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: the chapel soon after the 1917 alterations

Image Source: photograph in Kirk (1920)

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 March 2009 by Andrew Whale [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1222161] [accessed 2 June 2012]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: the chapel, right next to the Hall, before the 1917 alterations

Image Source: photograph in Kirk (1920)

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: the chapel in the context of the Hall gounds; at right the porte cochere

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 April 2009 by Paula K ^www.panoramio.com/photo/21278462?tag=Lotherton Hall¸âccessed 2 June 2012

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view of church interior

Scene Description: the chapel interior before the 1917 alterations

Image Source: photograph in Kirk (1920)

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken October 2006 by Mike Kirby [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/886293] [accessed 2 June 2012]

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view of church interior - plan

Image Source: illustration in Kirk (1920)

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view of context

Scene Description: Lotherton Hall; the Chapel, not visible, is located near the Hall

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 April 2009 by Neil T [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lotherton_Hall,_Aberford,_near_Leeds,_England-12April2009.jpg] [accessed 2 June 2012]

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view of stoup

Scene Description: Source caption: "Lotherton Chapel, font. The font, unlike the building itself, is not ancient, but is an unusual design with turtles at each corner of the base, whose symbolism escapes me."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2016 by Stephen Craven [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5066765] [accessed 30 October 2018]

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view of stoup

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2010 by Rosy Hunt [www.flickr.com/photos/rosyhunt/4872905518/] [accessed 2 June 2012]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 18050LOT

Church/Chapel: Chapel at Lotherton Hall

Church Location: Lotherton Lane (off Collier Lane), Aberford, Leeds LS25 3EB

Country Name: England

Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located on the B1217, 2 km off the A1, 2 Km SE of Aberford, 8 km S of Tadcaster, 21 km NE of Leeds

Historical Region: West Riding of Yorkshire -- Kingdom of Elmete

Font Location in Church: Inside the chapel, at the W end of the nave

Church Notes: the reredos is believed to be south-German or north-Italian; the altar said to be German; the stoup could be Italian

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No individual entry for Lotherton found in the Domesday survey. Bogg (1902) reports "an ancient holy-water stoup" of the same age as the north doorway, that is, 12th-century Norman. Kirk (1920) notes that the first mention of this site occurs "in a grant of King Edgar [...] in A.D. 963 [...] Unfortunately, the mediaeval and later records in which Lotherton is mentioned, contain no reference to the chapel. The founder's name, the date of foundation and the dedication are not disclosed. [...] The edifice of Lotherton was probably erected [...] as a chapel-of-ease to the mother church of Sherburn, in whose parish it remained until 1908 [...] No chantry appears to have been established at Lotherton, [...] The ancient dedication of Lotherton Chapel does not appear to be known. [...] No trace of burials have been found at Lotherton. [...] At the reopening after repairs, in 1917, Lotherton Chapel was provisionally dedicated in the name of St. James." Kirk (ibid.) proceeds to inform that there is a lack of documentary evidence as to the uses of the chapel throughout the centuries, though some "divine services" are not to have taken place in it . Kirk (ibid.) further quotes "Mr. Bilson" [John Bilson, FSA] in dating the fabric of the chapel to "the last quarter of the twelfth century", from which time some windows and the western entranceway are said to date. "The chapel retains some of its fittings. which are of various dates. Against the inside of the west wall of the nave is a short stone shaft with base and scalloped capital, the top of which is hollowed out as a basin; this is of the original twelfth century period, and is either a holy-water stoup or (more probably) a pillar piscina." The description of the stoup or piscina in Kirk [cf. supra] does not seem to match at all the object now located in the chapel, which suggests the existence of another stoup there. The object of which we have images is a font or stoup of considerable craftmanship and appears to be made of marble, the kind more likely to be found in an Italian church than in an obscure Yorkshire chapel. The basin is rather shallow, round with tapering sides exquisitely decorated with a round arch on torsade columns with carved capitals; inside the arch are two facing peacocks drinking from a fountain that is of almost the same shape as the stoup here [NB: only one of these arches is visible in our source, but there appear to be four of them at 90-degree angles]; the sides all around are decorated with a fine pattern of foliated motifs, leaves of various kinds, framed with thin mouldings decorated with fret-work or rope motif. The round slender pedestal base, of the same material [marble?] has several decorative sections: atop is a capital-like with large foliated motifs; below it is a narrow band of fret-work of original design; farther down is a section of torsade pattern, below which is an octagonal section decorated with panels of reticular and floral patterns; the lower base of the pedestal is octagonal to square and made up of four standing turtles with their upper legs leaning against a rope moulding; below them a plain moulding atop a plain square section. The quality of the workmanship is superb. [NB: we have not been able to find any further information on the origin of this object, nor do we have a confirmation on the stoup/piscina noted in Kirk].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.81259, -1.295013

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 48′ 45.32″ N, 1° 17′ 42.05″ W

UTM: 30U 612257 5964019

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble?

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Bogg, Edmund, The old Kingdom of Elmet: York and the Ainsty district: a descriptive sketch [...], London; Manchester; [etc.]: John Heywood [etc.], 1902

Kirk, G.E, "Lotherton Chapel (W.R. Yorks.)", 26, pt. 2 (1920), Publications of the Thoresby Society: Miscellanea, 1920, pp. [109]-128; r["References"]