Aston Cantlow / Estone

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design element - architectural - buttress or column - 4

Image Source: digital photograph in the Aston Cantlow Parish website [www.astoncantlow.com/clubs-groups/st-john-the-baptist-church/] [accessed 19 November 2014]

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 8

Scene Description: on the flat spaces of the underbowl chamfer, between the human heads

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 28 July 2006 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/tags/astoncantlow/] [accessed 2 March 2015]

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - in a square - 8

Scene Description: notice the insert-stone repair of the upper rim

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in the Aston Cantlow Parish website [www.astoncantlow.com/clubs-groups/st-john-the-baptist-church/] [accessed 19 November 2014]

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human figure - head

Scene Description: at every other angle of the underbowl; originally four (?) but at least one is broken off and missing

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in the Aston Cantlow Parish website [www.astoncantlow.com/clubs-groups/st-john-the-baptist-church/] [accessed 19 November 2014]

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view of basin

Scene Description: the basin as found in the churchyard ca. 1845-1850 [originally from Stratford-upon-Avon? [cf. FontNotes]]

Image Source: engraving [by Fairholt?] in Charles Knight's Studies an illustrations of the writings of Shakspere [sic] and of his life and times (London, 1850), vol. 1: 16

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2011 by David Dixon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2548034] [accessed 19 November 2014]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: ca. 1845

Image Source: detail of an engraving by Fairholt in Charles Knight's Old England: A Pictorial Museum (London, 1845)

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph in the Aston Cantlow Parish website [www.astoncantlow.com/clubs-groups/st-john-the-baptist-church/] [accessed 19 November 2014]

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view of font - northwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2006 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/tags/astoncantlow/] [accessed 2 March 2015]

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view of font in context - west side

Scene Description: the restored font in the context of the west end of the nave at Aston Cantlow St. John's

Image Source: digital photograph in the Aston Cantlow Parish website [www.astoncantlow.com/clubs-groups/st-john-the-baptist-church/] [accessed 19 November 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19517AST

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: Church Lane, Aston Cantlow, Warwickshire B95 6JB

Country Name: England

Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located 8 km NW of Stratford-upon-Avon

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry

Historical Region: Hundred of Fernecombe [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Barlichway

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the N aisle, W end

Century and Period: 15th century [basin only?] / 17th century[base only] [composite font?], Late Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Aidan McRae Thomson, of Warwickshire Churches [warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/], for his photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Aston [Cantlow] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP1359/aston-cantlow/] [accessed 19 November 2014]; it reports a priest in it without mentioning a church, though there probably was one there. There is a 1845 engraving by Fairholt in Knight (1845 and 1850) showing the Aston Cantlow church, with the remains of a baptismal font lying on the ground of the churchyard; the text appears to indicate that the old basin was originally from a Stratford church. [NB: that surving basin is in the same style to the font noted below in the VCH]. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 3, 1945) notes: "Domesday records a priest at Aston. [...] The advowson probably descended with the manor until the second William de Cantelupe (c. 1239–51) gave it to Studley Priory. [...] The chancel, nave, and tower date from late in the 13th century. [...] The font is probably of the 15th century. The bowl is octagonal and has in each face a quatrefoil panel with a central flower. The underside is hollow-moulded and has a flower in the middle of each side. Below each alternate angle is a carved human head of a bearded man (one broken): they spring from the tops of square pilasters about the main octagonal stem: the base is hollow-moulded." English Heritage [Listing NGR: SP1376459866] (1967) reports: "C15 octagonal stone font in north aisle has quatrefoil to each face, and stem and buttresses with bearded heads. C17 font stem". The Parish website [www.astoncantlow.com/clubs-groups/st-john-the-baptist-church/] [accessed 19 November 2014] notes: "The octagonal font dates from the 15th century and is used for baptisms. It is almost certain that it would have been used for the baptism of Mary Arden, Shakepeare’s mother."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 14' 11.66" N, 1° 47' 59.13" W

UTM: 30U 582141 5787788

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2014-11-19 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Knight, Charles, Old England: a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal and popular antiquities, London: Charles Knight & Co., Ludgate Street, 1845

Knight, Charles, Studies and Illustrations of the Writings of Shakspere and of his Life and Times, London: Charles Knight, 1850