Leckford / Lecford / Lechtford / Legford / Leghford / Lekford
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 16
Scene Description: very shallow arcade
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view of church exterior - north view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 August 2011 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2548138] [accessed 10 September 2018]
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view of font in context
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06761LEC
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Leckford Lane, Leckford, Stockbridge SO20 6JG, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Hampshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off the A3057, 3 km NE of Stockbridge, 17 km WNW of Winchester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester
Historical Region: Hundred of King's Sombourne
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1150?
Century and Period: 12th century (mid? / late?), Late Norman? / Transitional?
There are two entries for Leckford [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU3737/leckford/] [accessed 10 September 2018] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. White (1878) reports: "The font is a fine old square one, of the date of about A.D. 1150, set on its old base and restored in 1876". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "The font has a square bowl ornamented with a plain arcade of round-headed arches in low relief, and is of late 12th-century date. The stem is circular and quite plain, the base square and hollow chamfered." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SU3730137592] has: "In centre C13 square Purbeck font with blind arcading, on large column on moulded base."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.1368,
-1.467
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 8' 12" N,
1° 28' 1" W
UTM: 30U 607413 5666211
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: lead lined
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-01-13 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
White, William, History, gazetteer and directory of the County of Hampshire including the Isle of Wight, and [...], Sheffield: William White, 1878
