Buckminster No. 1

Noted with an illustration in Upcott (1818) as an "ancient Sexagon Font". Noted in Fowler (1876a): "The font is a pleasing specimen of the Perpendicular style. octagonal in plan, and having a carved and embattled bowl." Described in White's 1877 Directory of Leicester and Rutland as an octagonal baptismal font of 14th-century design. Noted in Pevsner (1984): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with quatrefoiled panels and embattled (cf. Sproxton)." N.A. Cooke's 'The Church of St Bartholomew: a history of the parish and description of its church' [http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/nacooke/sproxton/] [accessed 20 December 2006] includes an old plan of the church [originally from Nichols?] which shows the font located in the south aisle, just east of the south entrance, and describes the font: "The fine 15th century octagonal font has an elaborate bowl carved with a sunken quatrefoil on each of its eight sides. It has an embattled top with incised crosses 'pommees' in the embrasures. On the underside of the bowl, at the corners and below the quatrefoils, are carved heads and leaf designs. The stem is carved with blind tracery and sits upon a spurred base. The font in St John the Baptist's church at nearby Buckminster is of almost identical detail, but the Buckminster font differs in being, most unusually, six sided." [cf. Index entry for Buckminster No. 2 for a holy-water stoup of earlier date in this church]