Little Bowden / Bowden Parva

INFORMATION

Font ID: 05449BOW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26643240
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just S of Great Bowden and S of Market Harborough
Font Notes:
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, p. 57
  • Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818, [vol. II, part II, p. 502] and pl. lxxxii. 9 [on the letter-press] / [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 23 September 2007]