Ashby Folville

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - beaded-tape motif

Image Source: Rickman & Parker (1881: 74)

Copyright Instructions: PD

B02: design element - motifs - beaded-tape

Scene Description: across the middle on one of the sides

Image Source: Rickman & Parker (1881: 74)

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BH01: human figure - head - 4?

Scene Description: at the corners of the basin; some defaced or broken

Image Source: Rickman & Parker (1881: 74)

Copyright Instructions: PD

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Image Source: Rickman & Parker (1881: 74)

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Image Source: engraving in The Church Builder (issue no. 47 January 1873: 18)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 04805ASH

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Country Name: England

Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located 10 kms SW of Melton Mowbray, 16 km NNE of Leicester

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: ca. 1160?

Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Norman

Church Notes: The church was founded in 1220 but the Folvilles go back to 1100

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Noted and illustrated in The Church Builder (issue no. 47 January 1873: 18). Illustrated in Rickman & Parker (1881) [with woodcut by Orlando Jewitt]: square basin mounted on four square shafts and two plinths. The sides of the basin are carved with architectural motifs [at least on the two visible sides] and what appear to be heads at the angles; one side has a blind arcade of round arches, the arches being of beaded-tape pattern; the other visible side is divided by a horizontal band of beaded-tape through its middle, with arches at the top and a sort of garland on the bottom. Note that at least one of the columns of the base is a mismatch: R&P's illustration shows two square shafts and a round one. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a "square Norman bowl, well sculptured". Pevsner (1984) notes: "Font. Square, Norman, with arches, two tiers of intersected arch heads, etc."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: square

Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984

Rickman, Thomas, An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of Architecture in England, from the Conquest to the Reformation, with a Sketch of the Grecian and Roman Orders, An [7th ed. -- orig. published in 1817], Oxford and London: Parker and Co., 1881

Tyack, George Smith, Lore and legend of the English Church, London: W. Andrews, 1899