Thurnby

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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases - 8

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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view of church exterior - northeast view

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06980THU
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Luke
Church Patron Saints: St. Luke
Church Location: Church Lane, Thurnby, Leicestershire LE7 9PJ
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the A47, 7 km W of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century (late?), Early English
No entry for Thurnby found in the Domesday survey. Cox & Harvey (1907) list here a baptismal font of the Early English period. The Victoria County History (Leicester, vol. 5 1964) notes: "Thurnby church was in existence by about 1143 [...] Much of the fabric dates from a restoration of 1870–3. Evidence for the existence of a large cruciform church as early as the 12th century remains in the four large nearly circular piers, with scalloped capitals, that carry the tower. [...] The rebuilding of the nave appears to have begun in the late 13th century [...] One other probably late-13th-century feature is the tubshaped font with a base formed by eight clustered shafts." In Pevsner (1984): "Font. Tub-shaped, E[arly] E[nglish], on an eight-shafted foot." The wooden cover appears to be made of two parts: a plain round and flat platform base, with a large fleuron finial that may have been taken from some other furnishing.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.62937, -1.045533
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 37′ 45.73″ N, 1° 2′ 43.92″ W
UTM: 30U 632279 5832836

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: Victorian?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2006-12-20 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984