South Kilworth
Image copyright © Walwyn, 2009
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Results: 5 records
B01: design element - motifs - foliage - acanthus
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]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission + Creative Commons Licence [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/] [accessed 27 March 2009]
B02: design element - motifs - roll 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]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission + Creative Commons Licence [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/] [accessed 27 March 2009]
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]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission + Creative Commons Licence [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/] [accessed 27 March 2009]
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Walwyn, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 January 2009 by Walwyn [http://www.flickr.com/photos/overton_cat/] [accessed 27 March 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission + Creative Commons Licence [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/] [accessed 27 March 2009]
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Bond (1908)
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
Font ID: 05425KIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century [re-tooled?], Transitional / Early English [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17534555
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: altered font / recycled font: re-tooled? [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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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."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Walwyn, of Midland Churches [http://professor-moriarty.com/moriarties/midland_churches], for his photograph of this font
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, p. 209, 211 and ill. on p. 215
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984, p. 383
- Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818, [vol. IV, part I, p. 526 and pl. xxix / [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 30 September 2007]