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]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01750GRE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Helen
Church Patron Saints: St. Helena
Church Location: Harborough Rd, Great Oxendon, Market Harborough LE16 8NA, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1858 469808
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the A508, 5 km S of Market Harborough
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the S aisle
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.44846, -0.91915
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 26′ 54.46″ N, 0° 55′ 8.94″ W
UTM: 30U 641412 5812955

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: oval (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: oval
Basin Exterior Shape: oval
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. Accessed: 2009-04-03 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Mee, Arthur, The King's England: Northamptonshire, country of spires and stately homes, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1945
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973