Market Bosworth / Boseworde
Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
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view of font and cover - southeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image Source: photograph taken 17 July 1982 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
view of font and cover - east side
![[NB: orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1141117081_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3132318] [accessed 17 November 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover
![not the present cover [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0011125076_compressed.png)
Scene Description: not the present cover [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)
Copyright Instructions: PD
design element - architectural - arcade - Ogee arches - crocketed - 6
Scene Description: Each arch containing a shield with coat of arms
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 17 July 1982 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
symbol - shield - coat of arms - unidentified - 6
Scene Description: one in each of the arches of the basin sides [cf. font notes for details]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 17 July 1982 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3132274] [accessed 17 November 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the font and cover in the centre of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3132276] [accessed 17 November 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking west
![the font and cover at the far [west] end](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1141117079_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the font and cover at the far [west] end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3132283] [accessed 17 November 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 17 July 1982 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01178MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: pre-1360? [basin only]
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century [basin only] -- 13th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Church Street, Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, CV13 0LG
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
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]
Additional Comments: composite font / altered font [cf. FontNotes] -- disappeared font? (the one from the likely Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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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?"
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Timothy Marlow for his photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 608289 5831763
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.625043, -1.400181
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 37′ 30.16″ N, 1° 24′ 0.65″ W
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, p. 57
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 170, 206
- 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 and fn
- Nichols, John, History and antiquities of the town and County of Leicester, London: John Nichols & Son, 1795-1811, Pl. LXI, p. 1184
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 28 et al.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984, p. 303
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 92
- Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818, [vol. IV, part II, p. 530 and pl. lxxviii / [http://books.google.com/books?id=gLwuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA228&lpg=PA228&dq=upcott+1818&source=web&ots=lJwT-K00zU&sig=oVT6Kc6G03vqjYf4Synuk_Aek9w#PPP15,M1] [accessed 30 September 2007]