Legbourne No. 2 / Lecheburne / Lekeburn
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B01: symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - 8
Scene Description: one on each side of the octagonal basin
INFORMATION
FontID: 10682LEG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Church Ln, Legbourne, Louth LN11 8LN, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the A157, about 6 km SE of Louth
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Legbourne [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF3684/legbourne/] [accesseed 25 April 2019] neither of which mentions cleric or church here. Sutton (1898) writes: " The font is good one, larger in proportion than many we have seen, the sides being ornamented with recesses circles containing quatrefoils with a plain shield in each." Described in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with shields in quatrefoils." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF3676284430] notes: "Parish church. c.1380, 1865-8 [...] C19 octagonal font with tall base with traceried panels and bowl decorated with blind shields."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989
Sutton, A.F., "A Description of the Churches Visited in the Excursion from Louth, July 6th & 7th, 1897", XXIV, part I, Reports and Papers Read at the Meetings of the Architectural Societies of the Diocese of Lincoln, County of York, Archdeaconry of Northampton, County of Bedford, Diocese of Worcester, County of Leicester and Town of Sheffield, 1898, pp. 95-114; p. 105