Wyfordby / Wyverby

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - Ogee arches - cusped

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 06981WYF
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 5 km SE of Melton Mowbray
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984
Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818