Desford

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view of font and cover

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Image Source: from a photograph in Desford Parish web site [www.stmartinsdesford.org.uk]

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view of font and cover in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Desford Parish, 2006

Image Source: from a photograph in Desford Parish web site [www.stmartinsdesford.org.uk]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION [requested] NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

FontID: 06971DES
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the B582, 12 km W of Leicester
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, in front of the vestry
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Noted in Pevsner (1984): "Font. Norman, circular, crude, with one band of beads." The font consists of a cylindrical basin decorated with a row of bead-tape motif about 1/3 from the top; it is raised on a modern moulded pedestal base. The Parish web site informs that the pedestal base "was added during major restoration work in 1884"; this information captions a recent photograph of the font on the Desford Parish web site [www.stmartinsdesford.org.uk] [accesed 18 September 2006]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round, probably modern

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818