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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 07364KEG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the A6, 20 km SE of Derby, 28-30 km WNW of Leicester
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: Late Medieval
Cognate Fonts: Other hexagonal fonts in England: Faringdon, Outwell, Rolvenden, Sleaford
Font Notes:
Described in Gough (1792): "hexagon, on a bracket base richly moulded." Noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as one of a few hexagonal fonts in England later than the 14th century [others cited in C&H are: Faringdon, Outwell, Rolvenden and Sleaford]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hexagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; p. 194
Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818