Leicester No. 3 / Ledecestre
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Results: 15 records
view of font and cover
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view of basin
Scene Description: the restoration by new-stone insert is uite obvious here
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design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1070116002_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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symbol - shield
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design element - architectural - arcade - pointed arches
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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human figure - demi-figure
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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animal
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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angel
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design element - motifs - foliage - stiff-leaf
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: marking the three different areas of the basin side
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view of church exterior - northwest view
![[NB: photograph taken after the demolition of the spire]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150926021_compressed.png)
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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 - northwest view
![[NB: photograph taken before the demolition of spire]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150926020_compressed.png)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © NotFromUtrecht, 2010
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 - south view
![[NB: photograph taken before the demolition of spire]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150926019_compressed.png)
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."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © NotFromUtrecht, 2009
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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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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06979LEI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (mid?) [re-tooled], Early English [altered]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary de Castro
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
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
Church Address: 15 Castle View, Leicester LE3 5DR -- Tel.: +44 1572 820181
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on Castle Yard
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester [formerly in the Diocese of Lincoln]
Historical Region: Hundred of Guthlaxton
Additional Comments: altered font: font of the Decorated period re-tooled in the Perpendicular period? MUST USE
Font Notes:
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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].
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]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 625850 5832992
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.6323, -1.1404
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 37′ 56.28″ N, 1° 8′ 25.44″ W
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, p. 153
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 206
- 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, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=51101] [accessed 21 December 2006]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984, p. 215
- Throsby, John, The History and Antiquities of the ancient town of Leicester, Leicester: Printed by J. Brown for the Author, 1791, [p. 545, pl. 32 / http://books.google.com/books?id=gLwuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA228&lpg=PA228&dq=upcott+1818&source=web&ots=lJwT-K00zU&sig=oVT6Kc6G03vqjYf4Synuk_Aek9w#PPA547,M1] [accessed 1 October 2007]