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
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view of font
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view of font
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Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged]
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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
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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
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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
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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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, 2007
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, 2007
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 - buttress - crocketed pinnacle - 8
Scene Description: one at each angle of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, 2007
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 - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, 2007
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, 2007
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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view of church exterior - west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, 2007
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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human figure - standing - 8 - orant pose?
Scene Description: Each figure inside a trefoil arch
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design element - motifs - assorted
Scene Description: floral, heads, initials(?), etc
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: several sets on the base and lower base
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view of base - detail
Scene Description: does the figure hold a musical instrument?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, 2007
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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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01374LEV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Cognate Fonts: Dullingham, Isleham and Tydd St Giles
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, by the tower
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Leonard
Church Address: 32 Gorefield Road, Leverington, Cambridgeshire PE13 5BE
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A1101, just NW of Wisbech
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Wisbech
Additional Comments: damaged font (very weathered; must been exposed to the elements for a long time) -- disappeared font? (the one from the original 12thC(?) church here)
Font Notes:
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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."
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.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 306310 5840645
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.681058, 0.134604
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 40′ 51.81″ N, 0° 8′ 4.57″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
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-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 188
- 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, vol. II: p. 60
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 18fn et al.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cambridgeshire, Harmonsworth: Penguin, 1970, p. 423
- Poole, George Ayliffe, The Appropriate Character of Church Architecture, Leeds; London: T.W. Green; Rivington, Burns, and Houlston and Stoneman, 1842, p. 72