Market Bosworth / Boseworde

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coat of arms - unidentified - 6

Scene Description: one in each of the arches of the basin sides [cf. font notes for details]

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 17 July 1982 by Timothy Marlow

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design element - architectural - arcade - Ogee arches - crocketed - 6

Scene Description: Each arch containing a shield with coat of arms

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 17 July 1982 by Timothy Marlow

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view of base

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 17 July 1982 by Timothy Marlow

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3132274] [accessed 17 November 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the font and cover in the centre of the nave

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3132276] [accessed 17 November 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font and cover at the far [west] end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3132283] [accessed 17 November 2014]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: not the present cover [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)

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view of font and cover - east side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3132318] [accessed 17 November 2014]

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view of font and cover - southeast side

Image Source: photograph taken 17 July 1982 by Timothy Marlow

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01178MAR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Church Street, Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, CV13 0LG

Country Name: England

Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located about 15 km W of Leicester on the B585, between the A447 and the A444

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester

Historical Region: Hundred of Guthlaxton [in Domesday]

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

Date: pre-1360? [basin only]

Century and Period: 14th century [basin only] -- 13th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Timothy Marlow for his photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for [Market] Bosworth [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SK4003/market-bosworth/] [accessed 17 November 2014]; the entry in the lordship of Hugh of Gouville reports one priest and one deacn in it; there is no mention of a church though there probably was one there at the time. The font here is described in Gough (1792): "an hexagon vase adorned with shields of arms under purfled canopies, and supported on eight short round pillars with capitals and bases." Engraved in Nichols (1795-1811). Noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). Described and illustrated in Paley (1844): "Beautiful specimen of the fourteenth century, or Decorated work. [...] Its form is hexagonal , having each side of the bowl ornamented with an ogee crocketted arch, rising from clustered shafts at the angles, which rest on corbels of foliage. Under each arch is a shield supported by a moulded corbel; the shields were most likely originally painted with bearings of the families to whom they belonged, but at present only the ordinaries remain; on the 1st, two bars; 2nd a frette; 3rd, plai; 4th, two bars; 5th, three chevronels; 6th, a chevron. The cornice is ornamented with the four-leaved flower and the rose. The shaft is clustered and filleted, and has capitals and bases of very good details". The whole is raised on two plinths with a further step and a priest's stone added at top. The font cover is an octagonal pyramid with an egg-shaped finial. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. Listed in Tyrrell-Green as a font of the Decorated period. Noted in Pevsner (1984): "Font. Hexagonal bowl of before 1360 according to one of the shields of arms under cusped ogeearches. Base C13?"

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.625043, -1.400181

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 37′ 30.16″ N, 1° 24′ 0.65″ W

UTM: 30U 608289 5831763

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

Rim Thickness: 5 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 72.5 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 82.5 cm*

Basin Depth: 42.5 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 130 cm

Notes on Measurements: *a/p Paley (1844, unpaged), although the measurements of the basin appear to leave a very thin basin wall for a font of this period.

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: The lid shown in Paley ca. 1844 [cf. FontNotes for details]

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

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; r["References"]

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

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928

Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818