Leverington

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LB01: design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches - crocketed arches - 8

Scene Description: one on each side of the base, each with a standing figure in prayer

Image Source: [source unknown or not recorded -- perhaps Lysons?]

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Apostle or saint - saint - seated - in Ogee arch - unidentified - 8

Scene Description: Seated figures believed to be saints but not identified individually

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004 [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/leverington.htm] [accessed 12 October 2007]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

angel - cherub

Scene Description: at least one at one of the angles of the underbowl; they are two worn to be certain of their identitity

Image Source: [source unknown or not recorded -- perhaps Lysons?]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

animal - bird

Scene Description: at least one at one of the angles of the underbowl; they are two worn to be certain of their identitity

Image Source: [source unknown or not recorded -- perhaps Lysons?]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

design element - architectural - buttress - crocketed pinnacle - 8

Scene Description: one at each angle of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004 [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/leverington.htm] [accessed 12 October 2007]

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design element - architectural - niche - Ogee - 8

Scene Description: with inner cinquefoil arches, each housing a seated figure

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004 [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/leverington.htm] [accessed 12 October 2007]

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design element - motifs - assorted

Scene Description: floral, heads, initials(?), etc

Image Source: [source unknown or not recorded -- perhaps Lysons?]

Copyright Instructions: PD

design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: several sets on the base and lower base

Image Source: [source unknown or not recorded -- perhaps Lysons?]

Copyright Instructions: PD

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004 [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/leverington.htm] [accessed 12 October 2007]

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design element - motifs - trefoil - 16

Scene Description: one in each spandrel of the arches

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004 [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/leverington.htm] [accessed 12 October 2007]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

human figure

Scene Description: at least one at one of the angles of the underbowl; they are two worn to be certain of their identitity

Image Source: [source unknown or not recorded -- perhaps Lysons?]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

human figure - standing - 8 - orant pose?

Scene Description: Each figure inside a trefoil arch

Image Source: [source unknown or not recorded -- perhaps Lysons?]

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of base - detail

Scene Description: does the figure hold a musical instrument?

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004 [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/leverington.htm] [accessed 12 October 2007]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - west end

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004 [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/leverington.htm] [accessed 12 October 2007]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font

Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged]

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view of font

Image Source: [source unknown or not recorded -- perhaps Lysons?]

Copyright Instructions: PD

INFORMATION

FontID: 01374LEV

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard

Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard

Church Location: 32 Gorefield Road, Leverington, Cambridgeshire PE13 5BE

Country Name: England

Location: Cambridgeshire, East

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A1101, just NW of Wisbech

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely

Historical Region: Hundred of Wisbech

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, by the tower

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Cognate Fonts: Dullingham, Isleham and Tydd St Giles

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ben Colburn & Mark Ynys-Mon, of Cambridgeshire Churches, [www.druidic.org/camchurch/] for their information on and photographs of church and font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No individual entry found for Leverington in the Domesday survey. Lysons (1806-1833) include this in a group of fonts "in the later Gothic style, being octagonal, and richly ornamented with tracery" [the fonts mentioned by the Lysons in this group are: Dullingham, Iselham [i.e., Isleham], Tydd St. Giles and Leverington]. In Poole (1842). Elaborate example of 15th century octagonal mounted font in the Perpendicular style; described by Paley (1844) as "magnificent [...], singularly rich and beautiful." The sides of the octagonal basin have Ogee cinquefoil crocketed arches, each containing a seated figure [saints?]. The stem of the base has a trefoil arcade, one arch per side, each containing a long-robed standing figure with hands together in prayer, while the outward sloping lower part of the base has a different motif on each side: flower, head, foliage initials (?), etc. Paley (ibid.) reports it as being "not in good conservation; and, moreover, has been painted" (ibid.). The font stands on an octagonal plinth with a priest's stone. Noted in The Ecclesiologist (XXVIII, 1867: 6). Noted in Kelly's Directory of this county for 1929: "the font is adorned with figures uindercanopies." Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with small standing figures against the stem and large seated figures under ogee arches on the bowl; one of the best medieval fonts in Cambridgeshire." The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 4, 2002) notes: "A large church was erected in the middle of the 13th century consisting of chancel, south chapel, nave, and west tower; the nave was probably aisled. The only trace of earlier work is a small 12th century cap preserved in the parvise. [...] The 15th-century font, standing on risers, has an octagonal bowl and shaft; round the former are seated figures of saints under crocketed canopies and resting on foliated brackets, the panels being separated by pinnacled buttresses; the shaft has niches occupied by standing figures with folded hands with spreading foliage above, and the base is ornamented by paterae."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.681058, 0.134604

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 40′ 51.81″ N, 0° 8′ 4.57″ E

UTM: 31U 306310 5840645

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead lining

Rim Thickness: 17.5 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 55 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 90 cm*

Basin Depth: 32.5 cm* [uncertain; may refer to basin height]

Font Height (less Plinth): 115 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Paley (1844)

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-04-25 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Cambridgeshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1929

Lysons, Daniel, Magna Britannia, being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain, London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822

Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cambridgeshire, Harmonsworth: Penguin, 1970

Poole, George Ayliffe, The Appropriate Character of Church Architecture, Leeds; London: T.W. Green; Rivington, Burns, and Houlston and Stoneman, 1842