South Kilworth

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B01: design element - motifs - foliage - acanthus

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B02: design element - motifs - roll moulding

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Walwyn, 2009

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 24 January 2009 by Walwyn [http://www.flickr.com/photos/overton_cat/] [accessed 27 March 2009]

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view of font

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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Bond (1908)

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view of font and cover

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 January 2009 by Walwyn [http://www.flickr.com/photos/overton_cat/] [accessed 27 March 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05425KIL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located about 20 km S of Leicester (M1 to Misterton, then E on the A4304 to North Kilworth, then S on the B5414 to South K.)
Historical Region: formerly Leicestershire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [re-tooled?], Transitional / Early English [altered]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Walwyn, of Midland Churches [http://professor-moriarty.com/moriarties/midland_churches], for his photograph of this font
Noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a 13th-century baptismal font; the basin is shaped like a square foliated capital, with no vertical sides; the base is a cylindrical pedestal with rol mouldings at top and bottom [NB: Bond gives the county as Leicestershire, but is now in Northamptonshire]. Noted in Pevsner (1984): "Font. Late C12 or early C13. The form is that of a large capital with big upright leaf shapes ending in small bud-like lobed leaves, probably retooled."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square (at the top) - round (at the bottom)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat; modern?

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984
Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818