Wyfordby / Wyverby

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 06981WYF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26314390
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km SE of Melton Mowbray
Font Notes:
Noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. Noted in Pevsner (1984): "Font. Dec[orated], octagonal, with small cusped ogee arches."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

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. 429
  • Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818, p. 499 and pl. lx, fig. 3 / [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 23 September 2007]