Normanton nr .Derby / Normanton by Derby / Normanestune / Normanton-by-Derby / Normantune
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view of church exterior - corbel
Scene Description: described in Hewitt: "The corbel at the west end of the table, under the buttress of the tower is curious. It is much larger than the others, and bears two figures, as shown in the engraving".
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Image Source: digital image of a 1861 drawing by Llewellynn Hewitt, in The Reliquary, vol. 2, 1861)
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view of church exterior - south portal
Scene Description: Notice the carved frieze-like stone to the laft of the portal -- Hewitt writes: "The most interesting thing, however, about the church, was its south doorway (which within the last few years had been built up), and a curious piece of sculpture adjoining it. This doorway I here give [...] It will be seen that it is a pointed arch, of decorated character, with a zigzag dripstone. The sculptured stone, I take to have been the tympanum of the original doorway, to which the zigzag dripstone has belonged; and that at some distant period, probably early in the XIV. Century, it was taken down, the present doorway inserted, the tympanum built into the wall, and the zigzag moulding, which had formed the drip of the round headed door, used for the same purpose in the pointed one."
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Image Source: digital image of a 1861 drawing by Llewellynn Hewitt, in The Reliquary, vol. 2, 1861)
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view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum
Scene Description: This stone, which just before the demolition of Old St Giles 1861 had been built into the south wall of the church, just left of the 14thC south portal, was believed by Hewitt to have been the tympanum of the Norman suth portal: "a drawing I made, a few days only, before its removal. It is in a very dilapidated state, and some portions have entirely mouldered away. The central representation of the crucifixion, with the kneeling figures on either side; the huntsman with his horn, the beast in the wood and other figures, are clearly visible, and show the stone to be a very early specimen of art." In an accompanying footote is a remark by Hewitt worth reproducing here: "I am happy to add that this stone --which has been scarcely known to be in existence, and which a celebrated architect very recently, on its being pointed out to him, declared to be marked only with weatherings (!), and who struck it with a hammer in more places than one to prove his assertion (and the marks of that iconaelastic hammer are still visible)-- is to be preserved in the new church now being erected."
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Image Source: digital image of a 1861 drawing by Llewellynn Hewitt, in The Reliquary, vol. 2, 1861)
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view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum
Scene Description: This stone, which just before the demolition of Old St Giles 1861 had been built into the south wall of the church, just left of the 14thC south portal, was believed by Hewitt to have been the tympanum of the Norman suth portal: "a drawing I made, a few days only, before its removal. It is in a very dilapidated state, and some portions have entirely mouldered away. The central representation of the crucifixion, with the kneeling figures on either side; the huntsman with his horn, the beast in the wood and other figures, are clearly visible, and show the stone to be a very early specimen of art." In an accompanying footote is a remark by Hewitt worth reproducing here: "I am happy to add that this stone --which has been scarcely known to be in existence, and which a celebrated architect very recently, on its being pointed out to him, declared to be marked only with weatherings (!), and who struck it with a hammer in more places than one to prove his assertion (and the marks of that iconaelastic hammer are still visible)-- is to be preserved in the new church now being erected." -- Chris Cremin, Administrator, St Giles' Church Office informed BSI on 18 March 2019 that the former tympanum is indeed safe and sound, and sent this photograph.
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 March 2019 by Chris Cremin, St Giles' Church Office
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Giles' Church, Normanton. This church is situated in the southern suburbs of Derby, in an area known as Normanton." -- this is a 1862 re-building of the medieval church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nikki Mahadeva, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 February 2007 by Nikki Mahadevan [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/331366] [accessed 31 December 2018]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: view of St Giles just before its demolition in 1861; the original medieval church had undergone some changes in the 14thC and a 'beautification' in the early-18thC
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a 1861 drawing by Llewellynn Hewitt, in The Reliquary, vol. 2, 1861)
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view of church interior - plan
Scene Description: the plan corresponds to the Church of St Giles just before its demolition in 1861; the font is coded with the letter A in the plan, and the octagonal shape of the drawing is correct, according to Hewitt [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a 1861 drawing by Llewellynn Hewitt, in The Reliquary, vol. 2, 1861)
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