Great Oxendon
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B01: design element - motifs - chevron - nested chevrons
Scene Description: on the southeast side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ron Baxter & CRSBI, 2008
Image Source: image in the CRSBI [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-nh-goxen.html] [accessed 3 April 2009]
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view of font - west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ron Baxter & CRSBI, 2008
Image Source: image in the CRSBI [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-nh-goxen.html] [accessed 3 April 2009]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01750GRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Helen
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the S aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Helena
Church Address: Harborough Rd, Great Oxendon, Market Harborough LE16 8NA, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1858 469808
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A508, 5 km S of Market Harborough
Additional Comments: damaged font / repaired font
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a good example of the Norman period. Described in Mee (1945): "Norman font with a double row of carving round the bowl." In Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Of tub shape; Norman, with raw vertical zigzag." Described and illustrated in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (2008): "The bowl is oval, or more precisely rectangular with rounded angles [...] It is decorated with two horizontal bands of nested chevron encircling it, with just the return for a third band forming a rim. The bowl is lined with lead, and is badly eroded with mortar repairs to the surface. It stands on a cylindrical drum on a chamfered base and a damaged chamfered plinth".
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 641412 5812955
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.44846, -0.91915
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 26′ 54.46″ N, 0° 55′ 8.94″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: oval, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: oval
Basin Exterior Shape: oval
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead lined
Basin Total Height: 40 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 68 x 70 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [measurements a/p the CRSBI]
REFERENCES
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 211
- Mee, Arthur, The King's England: Northamptonshire, country of spires and stately homes, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1945, [http://northamptoncastle.homeip.net/northampton/books/Arthur%20Mee.htm] [accessed 19 October 2006]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 236