Lechlade / Lecelade
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view of font and cover
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view of font and cover in context
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Image Source: B&W photograph in Bond (1908: 68)
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view of basin and cover
Scene Description: the cover is partially visible in the background
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2023 by Colin Smith
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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 - architectural - window - quatrefoiled - 8
Scene Description: on some sides of the basin
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design element - motifs - cusped
Scene Description: along the lower edge of the basin
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design element - motifs - Ogee - in a circle
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - pointed or cusped quatrefoil
Scene Description: on some of the sides of the basin
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design element - motifs - piping
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view of basin - interior
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view of basin - upper view
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view of church exterior in context
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2023 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior in context
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view of church interior - nave - detail
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: on the stem of the base
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05435LEC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2007-06-02
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Lawrence
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the centre of the nave, W side, behind one of the centre pillars
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Address: Shelley's Cl, Lechlade GL7 3AB, UK -- Tel.: +44 1367 358653
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
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 Notes:
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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."
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.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 590513 5727802
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.69387, -1.69043
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 41′ 37.93″ N, 1° 41′ 25.55″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
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-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 71 and ill. on p. 70
- Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002, vol. 1: 437