Desford
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Desford Parish, 2006
Image Source: from a photograph in Desford Parish web site [www.stmartinsdesford.org.uk]
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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
Font ID: 06971DES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Martin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, in front of the vestry
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17541220
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B582, 12 km W of Leicester
Additional Comments: altered font: the pedestal base was added in 1884
Font Notes:
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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, p. 206
- Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818, [vol. IV, part II, p. 532 and pl. xlvii / [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 7 October 2007]