Little Bowden / Bowden Parva

INFORMATION

FontID: 05449BOW

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Country Name: England

Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located just S of Great Bowden and S of Market Harborough

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: Medieval

Font Notes: Click to view

Noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). Bond (1908) cites a Little Bowden as having a heptagonal baptismal font (NB: Bond gives the county as "Northants." on p. 57, but "Leics." in the Index locorum on p. 328 -- Little Bowden and Great Bowden are both in Leicestershire, near each other, just east and northeast of Market Harborough respectively]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Font Shape: heptagonal

Basin Exterior Shape: heptagonal

REFERENCES

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

Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818