Breedon on the Hill / Breedon-on-the-Hill / Bredon
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coat of arms - 8?
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coat of arms - 8?
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: on the stem, above and below the band of shields
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design element - patterns - tracery
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hyde, 2006
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symbol - sun - multi-rayed - in an octagon
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view of church exterior - north portal
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church interior - altar
Scene Description: Pre-Conquest altar
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2006
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view of church interior - altar - detail
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Kendrick (1938)
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view of church interior - altar - detail
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Kendrick (1938)
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view of church interior - detail
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view of church interior - detail
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Kendrick (1938)
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view of church interior - detail
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view of church interior - detail
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view of church interior - detail
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view of church interior - detail
![Source caption: "Saxon carvings from the Lady Chapel [...] and south aisle [...] They originally were on the inside and outside walls of the previous Saxon Minster church."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150816005_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Saxon carvings from the Lady Chapel [...] and south aisle [...] They originally were on the inside and outside walls of the previous Saxon Minster church."
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view of church interior - detail
![Source caption: "Saxon carvings from the Lady Chapel [...] and south aisle [...] They originally were on the inside and outside walls of the previous Saxon Minster church."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150816006_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Saxon carvings from the Lady Chapel [...] and south aisle [...] They originally were on the inside and outside walls of the previous Saxon Minster church."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
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view of church interior - detail
![Source caption: "Saxon carvings from the Lady Chapel [...] and south aisle [...] They originally were on the inside and outside walls of the previous Saxon Minster church."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150816007_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Saxon carvings from the Lady Chapel [...] and south aisle [...] They originally were on the inside and outside walls of the previous Saxon Minster church."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones, Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/breedon-on-the-hill-st-mary-st-hardulph/] [accessed 28 July 2015]
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view of church interior - detail
![Source caption: "Saxon carvings from the Lady Chapel [...] and south aisle [...] They originally were on the inside and outside walls of the previous Saxon Minster church."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150816008_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Saxon carvings from the Lady Chapel [...] and south aisle [...] They originally were on the inside and outside walls of the previous Saxon Minster church."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: showing the font at the west end of the centre asile
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view of church interior - plan
Scene Description: showing the position of the font at the west end, beneath the tower
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view of font
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view of font and cover
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view of font cover
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01154BRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Hardulph [Breedon Priory / Holy Hill Monastery - formerly a monastic church]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Hardulph
Church Location: Breedon on the Hill, Leics. DE73 8AJ
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 4 km SW of Melbourne, 8 km NE of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, near the Derbyshire border, 16-18 km SE of Derby
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of West Goscote
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, beneath the tower
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Craig Thornber [www.thornber.net], to Colin Hyde, of the East Midlands Oral History Archive [www.le.ac.uk/emoha], to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/], abd to Walwyn, of Midland Churches [http://professor-moriarty.com/moriarties/midland_churches/] for their photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: monastery founded in about 676; Saxon Benedictine abbey of Holy Hill Monastery; Breedon priory was founded as an Augustinian monastery in ca. 1120; dilapidated and in debt by 1441; surrendered for dissolution in 1539 -- interesting Anglo-Saxon (?) carvings all over this church; studied in Clapham, who dates them to the pre-Danis period, the late 8thC
Font Notes:
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No entry found for Breedon-on-theHill in the Domesday survey, but a monastery here is reported as early as 676 AD. Hexagonal font according to Gough (1792) and Paley (1844) [the latter under "Bredon, Leicestershire" refers to this one]. Gough (bid.) writes: "On Bredon font, which is also hexagon, are these arms: 1.a chevron between three garbs; 2.a chevron between three spread eagles; 3. and 5.seven mascles conjoined, 3. 3. I.; 6.a bend". Noted in Nichols (1875-1811). Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period with heraldic ornamentation. In Pevsner (1984): "Font. Octagonal, with shields, big flower panels, and tracery panels." The United Benefice of Breedon and Worthington web site has: "Under the tower now serving as a baptistry is a very fine octagonal 15th century font. Its faces and pillar support are decorated with elaborate tracery window designs, spoked floral wheels and several shields in delicate sandstone relief. Some of the medieval families represented by those shields are shown on the illuminated panel behind the font [source: www.benefice.org.uk/breedon_church/the_breedon_story/part06.php] [accessed 20 September 2006]. The arms on one of the shields could be those of the De Quincey Family.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.702361, -1.038194
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 42′ 8.5″ N, 1° 2′ 17.5″ W
UTM: 30U 632554 5840967
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: pyramidal octagonal font; about 50 cm tall; date unknown
REFERENCES
Clapham, Alexander William, "The Carved Stones at Breedon on the Hill, Leicestershire, and their position in the history of English Art"
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; p. 194
Nichols, John, History and antiquities of the town and County of Leicester, London: John Nichols & Son, 1795-1811
Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984