Great Bowden / Bowden Magna / Bugedone
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2006 by Andrew Tatlow [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/230250] [accessed 3 September 2015]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lord Muttley McFester, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 September 2009 by Lord Muttley McFester [www.flickr.com/photos/16545729@N03/3923098719] [accessed 3 September 2015]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05286BOW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Address: 10 Dingley Road, Gt. Bowden, Market Harborough, Leicestershire LE16 7HW
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 2 km NE of Market Harborough, 24 km from Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Gartree
Additional Comments: has the 15thC font disappeared as well? [cf. FontNotes] -- disappeared font? (the one from the early-13thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for [Great] Bowden [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP7488/great-bowden/] [accessed 3 September 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. A font here is noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). Poole (1842) notes three heptagonal fonts (Elmeswell in Suffolk, Bowden Mayne in Licolnshire and Bowden Magna in Leicestershire), though he remarks that they are not "worthy of special notice". Listed in Paley (1844) as a heptagonal baptismal font. In Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of heptagonal shape from the Perpendicular period. Bond (1908) mentions a heptagonal font in this town. [Bond et al. use "Great Bowden"; Cox & Harvey use the same form in one entry (p. 206), and "Bowden Magna" in the other (p. 165) -- modern usage prefers "Great Bowden"]. The Victoria County History (Leicestershire, vol. 5, 1964) notes: "The church at Great Bowden is first mentioned in about 1220 [...] The oldest parts of the fabric date from the second half of the 13th century [...] The font was replaced [...] but the carved oak font cover of two tiers, dating from the 17th century, was retained." The font cover alone is noted in Pevsner (1984): "Jacobean or Carolean and very handosme. Octagonal with pointed roof. Two tiers, the lower with square little pillars set diagonally, the upper with turned balusters carrying arches".
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 642488 5817934
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.492906, -0.9012
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 29′ 34.46″ N, 0° 54′ 4.32″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: heptagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: heptagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th century?
Material: wood, oak
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 57
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 165, 206
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 22
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984, p. 311
- Poole, George Ayliffe, The Appropriate Character of Church Architecture, Leeds; London: T.W. Green; Rivington, Burns, and Houlston and Stoneman, 1842, p. 70
- Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818, [vol. II, part II, p. 502] and pl. lxxxii. 9 [on the letter-press] / [http://books.google.com/books?id=gLwuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA228&lpg=PA228&dq=upcott+1818&source=web&ots=lJwT-K00zU&sig=oVT6Kc6G03vqjYf4Synuk_Aek9w#PPP15,M1] [accessed 23 September 2007]