Gaddesby / Gadesbie
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view of font in context - southwest side
Scene Description: the font at the west end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 March 2012 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hyde, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Colin Hyde, 2006 [East Midlands Oral History Archive [www.le.ac.uk/emoha]]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 15 January 2007)
view of font and cover - east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hyde, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Colin Hyde, 2006 [East Midlands Oral History Archive [www.le.ac.uk/emoha]]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 15 January 2007)
design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 16 March 2012 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
view of basin - upper view
Scene Description: notice the depth of the carving on the top side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 March 2012 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
design element - motifs - foliage - stiff-leaf
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150304012_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 16 March 2012 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - crocketed arches - with trefoiled window inserts
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 16 March 2012 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 16 March 2012 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
view of church exterior - southeast view
![Source caption: "St Luke's church, Gaddesby. The parish church was commenced in the early 12th century, with alterations and additions over the years, and was largely completed in 1350. It owes its growth and magnificence to two important factors – the wealth and prosperity of Gaddesby village in feudal times, and its association with the Knights Templar of Rothley. [...] The limestone font is circa 1320 carved with lilies and a consecration cross."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150304015_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Luke's church, Gaddesby. The parish church was commenced in the early 12th century, with alterations and additions over the years, and was largely completed in 1350. It owes its growth and magnificence to two important factors – the wealth and prosperity of Gaddesby village in feudal times, and its association with the Knights Templar of Rothley. [...] The limestone font is circa 1320 carved with lilies and a consecration cross."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 April 2012 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2921905] [accessed 4 March 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 April 2012 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2923362] [accessed 4 March 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 16 March 2012 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06977GAD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1320?
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (early?), Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Luke [St. Michael?]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Luke [St. Michael?]
Church Address: Church Lane, Gaddesby, Leicestershire, LE7 4WE
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B674, 10 km WSW of Melton Mowbray, about 15 km NE of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester [formerly in the Diocese of Peterborough]
Historical Region: Hundred of Goscote [in Domesday] - Soke of Rothley
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There are four entries for Gaddesby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SK6813/gaddesby/] [accessed 4 March 2015], one of which, in the lordship and tenency of King William, mentions a preiest, but not a church in it, though there probably was one there. A font here is noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Described in Pevsner (1984): "Font. Octagonal, E[arly] E[nglish], with cusped arches, and in the spandrels coarse stiff-leaf." The Gaddesby Parish web site [www.gaddesby.org.uk] informs: "This is not the original font and was probably made [...] about 1320. It is of limestone, lead lined, and carved with a lily motif. A small consecration cross carved on the only plain face of the upper portion is worthy of note. The font would have had a cover in ancient times and the marks of its fasteners can still be seen on the opposite sides of the upper surface [...] The font is not in its original position, which was, in medieval times, probably near the door of the south aisle." Some of the pointed crocketed arches of the basin arcade have trefoiled arch-heads on the intrados. [NB: this same source notes that the first church at Gaddesby was a 12th-century Norman chapel, and we know from Domesday [cf. supra] that there was a church here by 1086, perhaps even pre-Conquest].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hyde, of the East Midlands Oral History Archive [www.le.ac.uk/emoha], and to Timothy Marlow, for their photographs of this font]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 636353 5841954
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.710287, -0.9816
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 42′ 37.03″ N, 0° 58′ 53.76″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: round-to-octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round-to-octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: the present cover is round, flat and plain; appears modern [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 206
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984, p. 158
- Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818, [vol. III, part II, p. 520 and pl. cxxxii