Lechlade / Lecelade

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design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled - 8

Scene Description: on some sides of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph yaken 2 June 2007 by BSI

design element - motifs - Ogee - in a circle

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design element - motifs - cusped

Scene Description: along the lower edge of the basin

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design element - motifs - foliage - in a quatrefoil

Scene Description: on one of the sides of the base

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: on the stem of the base

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design element - motifs - piping

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - pointed or cusped quatrefoil

Scene Description: on some of the sides of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph yaken 2 June 2007 by BSI

information

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view of basin - interior

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view of basin - upper view

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view of basin and cover

Scene Description: the cover is partially visible in the background

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2023 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 25 August 2024)

view of church exterior in context

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view of church exterior in context

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view of church interior - nave - detail

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view of font

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: B&W photograph in Bond (1908: 68)

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view of font and cover in context

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view of font cover

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view of font cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2023 by Colin Smith

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view of font in context - west side

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05435LEC

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Lawrence

Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]

Church Location: Shelley's Cl, Lechlade GL7 3AB, UK -- Tel.: +44 1367 358653

Country Name: England

Location: Gloucestershire, South West

Directions to Site: Located off (SE) the A361-A417 crossroads, about 18 km NNE of Swindon up the A361

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester

Historical Region: Hundred of Brighwells Barrow

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the centre of the nave, W side, behind one of the centre pillars

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, and to Colin Smith, for their photographs of this church and font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Lechlade [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU2199/lechlade/] [accessed 21 December 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font here is illustrated in Bond (1908); the font is octagonal mounted with ornamentation on the basin sides and lower edge; each panel of the basin has a quatrefoil window, some round, some pointed; the lower edge of the basin appears cusped; the underbowl shows hollowed out sides; the base is modern and made of three volumes, from a narrow octagonal pedetsal at the top, to the splaying wide octagon at the lower end. The domed cover has a pointed end with a ball finial. The whole is raised on a wider octagonal plinth with projecting kneeling stone. Bond (ibid.) points out a niche in the pillar behind the font, in which a statue probably stood in the past. Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. C15. Octagonal bowl enriched with quatrefoils with different cusps; octagonal stem. The original base has been lost. C18 font cover."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.69387, -1.69043

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 41′ 37.93″ N, 1° 41′ 25.55″ W

UTM: 30U 590513 5727802

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead lining

Rim Thickness: 11-13.5*

Diameter (inside rim): 48 cm*

Basin Depth: 27 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 33 cm*

Height of Base: 56 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 110 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 70-75 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Date: 18th century?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2018-12-21 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002