Northleach / Lecce / North Leach

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angel - holding musical instrument - 8

Scene Description: one on each angle of the underbowl chamfer; some have lost their instrument

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2019 by Colin Smith

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animal - fabulous animal or monster? - demon? - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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design element - architectural - buttress - 8

Scene Description: one on each angle of the pedestal base

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design element - architectural - window - Gothic - cusped - 8

Scene Description: each with a human head in it

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 23 July 2013 by John Wilkes

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design element - architectural - window - trefoiled - 8

Scene Description: one on each side of the basin pedestal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2019 by Colin Smith

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human figure - head - 8

Scene Description: inside a cusped window; one on each side of the basin

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 23 July 2013 by John Wilkes

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view of basin - detail

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view of basin - underbowl - detail

Scene Description: most of the angels have lost their musical instrument and an arm or two

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view of basin - underbowl - detail

Scene Description: one of the few angels with the musical instrument intact

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view of basin - underbowl - detail

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by John Wilkes

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view of church exterior - tower and south portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2017 by John Wilkes

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2013 by John Wilkes

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view of font

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view of font

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern cover

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern cover

Image Source: digital photograph 7 June 2009 by John Ward

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the modern cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2019 by Colin Smith

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view of font cover - fragment

Scene Description: the old cover; no longer in use

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2019 by Colin Smith

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view of font cover - fragment - detail

Scene Description: the old cover; no longer in use

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2019 by Colin Smith

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view of font cover - fragment - detail

Scene Description: the old cover; no longer in use

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2019 by Colin Smith

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05883NOR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul

Church Location: Mill View, Northleach GL54 3HL, UK -- Tel.: +44 1451 861132

Country Name: England

Location: Gloucestershire, South West

Directions to Site: Located 16 km NE of Cirencester, 20 km EES of Cheltenham, just S of the A40 and E of the A429

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester

Historical Region: Hundred of Bradley

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S aisle

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular

Cognate Fonts: Similar, though not identical, to the font at Ruston (Norfolk)

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, 2008, of www.allthecotswolds.com, to John Ward, of Oxfordshire Churches [http://homepage.mac.com/john.ward/oxfordshirechurches], and to Colin Smith for their photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Northleach [variant spelling] in the Domesday [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP1114/northleach/] [accessed 27 September 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font here is described and illustrated in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as an octagonal mounted baptismal font of the Perpendicular period; the basin panels have hexafoil windows with human heads in them [the three visible in the source illustration -cf. supra- are male and bearded]; the chamfer of the underbowl has cherubs at the angles spreading their wings over the sides. The sides of the octagonal base have a trefoil window in each, while the angles spread out in pronounced buttresses; "figures of little demons are represented as being crushed beneath the angle buttresses of the pedestal, to symbolise the overcoming of the powers of evil in the sacrament." [The font at Ruston in Norfolk is given as a cognate of this one]. Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Late C14. Octagonal bowl with carved heads, supported by angels playing musical instruments, and below the pedestal demons defeated by baptism. Good font cover of 1966 by John L. Jones." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 9, 2001) notes: "The church at Northleach, which was recorded from 1100, [...] was probably founded before the Norman Conquest to serve the whole of Northleach manor as it was then constituted. [...] The building was remodelled on a lavish scale in the late 14th century and the 15th, partly from the proceeds of the town's wool trade [...] The church has an elaborate late 14th-century polygonal font, the decoration including portrait heads on the side panels of the bowl, angels playing musical instruments on the underside of the bowl, and devils being crushed at the base of the pedestal" [this last reference is footnoted: "Trans. B.G.A.S. xl. 45–8, 55."]. There is a fragment of what looks like an octagonal font cover kept in this church; it may be what remains of the late-Gothic wooden cover of the font, vert Perpendicular in design with eight crocketed scroll ribs; the finial is missing.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.830085, -1.838878

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 49′ 48.31″ N, 1° 50′ 19.96″ W

UTM: 30U 580012 5742777

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: Late Gothic?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: two covers: 1)fragment of an old wooden cover; 2)tall open-work octagonal cover, brightly painted and gilded; Victorian?

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-07-24 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928