Mancetter / Manchester / Manduessedum

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design element - architectural - buttress - 4

Scene Description: the upper part of the basin has been cut off

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design element - motifs - piping or ribbed - 4

Scene Description: the prolongation of the side buttresses onto the underbowl

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symbol - shield - blank - 4

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symbol - shield - blank - in a cusped panel - 4

Scene Description: the four panels had probably seven cusped foils [cf. FontNotes, where one source describes them as "octofoil"], but much of the upper part of the basin has been cut off [NB: the side at the back appears to be damaged, probably caused by one of the metal staples of the old cover; this damage was likely the reason why the upper basin side was cut off

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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view of font and cover

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view of font cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19554MAN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Mancetter, Warwickshire CV9 1NZ
Country Name: England
Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the B4111, in the SE outskirts of Atherstone. near the county border with Leicestershire
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry
Historical Region: Hundred of Hemlingford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th century (late?) [basin only] [composite font], Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Aidan McRae Thomson, of Warwickshire Churches [http://warwickshirechurches.weebly.com], for his photographs of this church and font
No entry found for Mancetter in the Domesday survey. The Ecclesiologist (no. VII, January 1846: 128) reports: "A correspondent informs us that the font of S. Peter, Mancetter, Warwickshire, a fine Third-Pointed one, is standing desecrated in the Incumbent's garden. May we not hope it will be soon restored to the church, and that its present substitute, a pewter basin on a pedestal, will be ejected?"; the hopes of The Ecclesiologist's editor had to wait more than sixty years but were eventually realised, as the Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 4, 1947) notes: "In 1196 Walter de Mancetter granted land for the endowment of the parish church. [...] There is evidence of 12th-century origin in the masonry of the chancel walls, but apparently nave and chancel were remodelled or rebuilt fairly early in the 13th century [...] The font has a late-15th-century bowl that was found in the vicarage garden in 1910 and restored to the church. It was damaged and several inches have been cut away to a level. It is eight-sided; the four major faces have octofoiled square panels inclosing blank shields. The lesser faces have middle pilasters with capitals; these are continued down with an ogee curve to the under edge of the bowl, as are also ribs from the sides of the main panels on either side of a blank shield."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.565364, -1.521969
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 33′ 55.31″ N, 1° 31′ 19.09″ W
UTM: 30U 600182 5824949

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: yes; pulley system
Notes: modern variation on the them of the ribbed octagonal pyramidal font; bears brass donation plaque

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2014-12-08 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.