Thurleigh No. 1 / La Leye / Lalega / Lega / Relye / Thurley

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coat of arms - Thomas Hervey (d. 1467 or 1477)

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: digital photograph taken September 2011, in the Bedfordshire Borough Council [www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/ArchivesAndRecordOffice/CommunityArchives/Thurleigh/ThurleighChurchArchitecture.aspx] [accessed 11 October 2015]

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design element - motifs - tracery - varied

Scene Description: some cusped quatrefoils, trefoiled windows, etc.

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symbol - shield - blank

Scene Description: the rest of the shields

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view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum

Scene Description: Source caption: "The tower has a wonderful tympanum over the south door showing Adam and Eve, the serpent and the Tree of Knowledge. Tympana such as this are quite rare in the county, which makes Thurleigh memorable."

Image Source: digital photograph taken January 2015, in the Bedfordshire Borough Council [www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/ArchivesAndRecordOffice/CommunityArchives/Thurleigh/ThurleighChurchArchitecture.aspx] [accessed 11 October 2015]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Thurleigh Church. The church has the appearance of being recently renovated with the stonework having been cleaned and pointed up."

Image Source: digital photograph taken10 April 2010 by Michael Trolove [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1799521] [accessed 11 September 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "The surviving nave dates from the 15th century, though there must have been one here earlier. It has arcades and aisles on both sides. Both aisles date from the 15th century."

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view of church interior - south aisle - looking east

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Like the aisles the porch is 15th century in date, as is the font. There is also a stoup for holy water, from the same date set into the south wall."

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10636THU

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: 25 High Street, Thurleigh, Bedford Borough MK44 2DX

Country Name: England

Location: Bedfordshire, East

Directions to Site: Located 10 km NNW of Bedford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans

Historical Region: Hundred of Willey

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

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There are six entries for Thurleigh [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL0558/thurleigh/] [accessed 11 September 2015], none of which mention cleric or church in it. Gage (1838) notes: "The arms of Hervey are carved on a font, of the fifteenth century, in Thurleigh Church". Parker's The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England (1848) notes: "The font octagonal, with shields round the base, on one of which are the arms of Hervey." Hervey (1859) refers to Gage's entry and expands the information to identify this Hervey as Thomas Herver, buried in Ickford (Suffolk) church, though Gage (ibid.) suggests that the date of Thomas Hervey's death was not 1477, as engraved on the tombstone, but 1467. The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The oldest part is the tower (c. 1130) [...] but there are no other remains of the church of that date. The present chancel was built in the 14th century of the same width as its predecessor, and in the 15th century the whole of the nave and the top story of the tower were rebuilt. [...] The font is of the 15th century, and consists of an octagonal panelled bowl on a shaft also panelled and bearing shields, one of which has on a bend three trefoils slipped; the rest are all blank." Noted in Pevsner (1968): "Font. Perp, octagonal, shields on the shaft." The entry for Thurleigh St. Peter's in the Bedfordshire Borough Council [www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/ArchivesAndRecordOffice/CommunityArchives/Thurleigh/ThurleighChurchArchitecture.aspx] [accessed 11 October 2015] notes: "Like the aisles the porch is 15th century in date, as is the font. There is also a stoup for holy water, from the same date set into the south wall."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.214625, -0.457254

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 12′ 52.65″ N, 0° 27′ 26.11″ W

UTM: 30U 673671 5787962

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-09-14 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Gage, John [aka John Gage Rokewode], The History and Antiquities of Suffolk ; Thingoe Hundred, London; Bury St. Edmund's: Published by John Deck [...] and Samuel Bentley [...], 1838

Hervey, Arthur, Rev. Lord, "Ickworth and the Family of Hervey ; a paper read [...] October 2nd, 1856", 2 (1859), Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology, 1859

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968