Kegworth

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 07364KEG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Late Medieval
Cognate Fonts: Other hexagonal fonts in England: Faringdon, Outwell, Rolvenden, Sleaford
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Andrew%27s_Church,_Kegworth
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A6, 20 km SE of Derby, 28-30 km WNW of Leicester
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, p. 165
  • 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, [vol. III, part II, p. 519 and pl. cxvii / [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 30 September 2007]