Leicester No. 3 / Ledecestre

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angel

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Colin Hyde, 2006 [East Midlands Oral History Archive [www.le.ac.uk/emoha]

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animal

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design element - architectural - arcade - pointed arches

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design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches

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design element - motifs - foliage - stiff-leaf

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: marking the three different areas of the basin side

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: forming the capitals and bases of the shafts of the base

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human figure - demi-figure

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symbol - shield

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view of basin

Scene Description: the restoration by new-stone insert is uite obvious here

Image Source: digital photograph in [www.docbrown.info/docspics/midlands/leicester/P9170534.jpg] [accessed 2 September 2015]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: [NB: photograph taken before the demolition of spire]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2010 by NotFromUtrecht [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary_de_Castro_from_Castle_Yard.jpg] [accessed 2 September 2015]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: [NB: photograph taken after the demolition of the spire]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 April 2015 by Kris1973 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kościół_Św._Marii_z_Castro.jpg] [accessed 2 September 2015]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: [NB: photograph taken before the demolition of spire]

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view of church interior - sedilia

Scene Description: Source caption: "The Norman sedilia,with rich zigzag carving to the arches and rich foliage on the capitals."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2009 by NotFromUtrecht [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary_de_Castro_sedilia.jpg] [accessed 2 September 2015]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph by Colin Hyde, 2006 [East Midlands Oral History Archive [www.le.ac.uk/emoha]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06979LEI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary de Castro

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: 15 Castle View, Leicester LE3 5DR -- Tel.: +44 1572 820181

Country Name: England

Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located on Castle Yard

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester [formerly in the Diocese of Lincoln]

Historical Region: Hundred of Guthlaxton

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th century (mid?) [re-tooled], Early English [altered]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hyde, of the East Midlands Oral History Archive [www.le.ac.uk/emoha] for the photographs of this font. [cf. Index entry for Leicester No. 1 for another Early English font in this town]

Church Notes: Google-Maps application for access to the interior of this church: https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=52.632451,-1.140475&spn=0.010627,0.027509&sll=52.633176,-1.140232&layer=c&cid=17378122063857799376&panoid=jy86hlO1f9fXwwH55aX4QQ&cbp=13,165.84,,0,3.58&gl=US&hq=+loc:+&t=h&cbll=52.632491,-1.140479&z=16

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are ten entries for Leicester [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK5804/leicester/] [accessed 28 August 2015], with a total of four churches mentioned in them. A font here is noted and illustrated in Throsby (1791). Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 notes: "The font is of curious and beautiful design." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Early English period. The Victoria County History (Leicestershire, vol. 4, 1958) notes: "A college of secular canons was established in the church of St. Mary de Castro by Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulan and probably the first Earl of Leicester; the date of foundation is said to have been 1107. It is possible that a collegiate church had existed before the Conquest. [...] The oldest surviving parts of the church date from shortly after the refoundation of 1107, when a church was begun which was probably completed before 1143. [...] The church has been much restored and altered. [...] Beneath the tower stands the mid-13th-century font; it has a bowl-shaped basin on a circular stem, and is decorated with a trefoiled arcade of four arches, with carved heads between." Noted in Pevsner (1984): "Font. C13, though reworked later in the upper parts. Foot of five shafts. Circular bowl. On the lower part trefoiled arches and shields. In their spandrels little pointed arches with busts. Above, frieze of animals and angels (Perp[endicular]?) and a top band of stiff-leaf." [NB: Clapham (1934) mentions an "elaborately ornamented" stoup in this church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.6323, -1.1404

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 37′ 56.28″ N, 1° 8′ 25.44″ W

UTM: 30U 625850 5832992

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: round and rather flat but decorated with mouldings; date unknown

REFERENCES

Clapham, Alfred William, English Romanesque Architecture after the Conquest, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984

Throsby, John, The History and Antiquities of the ancient town of Leicester, Leicester: Printed by J. Brown for the Author, 1791