Croft nr Leicester / Crebre / Crec

Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2009

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Results: 9 records

design element - motifs - foliage - waterleaf

Scene Description: all around the basin sides

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © St. Michael's Parish, 2005

Image Source: Digital image at www.st.michael.croft.btinternet.co.uk

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design element - motifs - moulding - 2

Scene Description: at both ends of the stem of the base

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © St. Michael's Parish, 2005

Image Source: Digital image at www.st.michael.croft.btinternet.co.uk

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design element - motifs - spur - 4

Scene Description: at 90-degree angles on the lower base

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © St. Michael's Parish, 2005

Image Source: Digital image at www.st.michael.croft.btinternet.co.uk

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2009 by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/croft-st-michael-and-all-angels/] [accessed 10 August 2015]

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view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2009 by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/croft-st-michael-and-all-angels/] [accessed 10 August 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2009 by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/croft-st-michael-and-all-angels/] [accessed 10 August 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font and cover at the west end

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2009 by Christopher Jones [http://www.flickr.com/photos/glugwine/sets/72157617894464695/] [accessed 17 August 2009]

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © St. Michael's Parish, 2005

Image Source: Digital image at www.st.michael.croft.btinternet.co.uk

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2009

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 21 June 2009 by Christopher Jones [http://www.flickr.com/photos/glugwine/sets/72157617894464695/] [accessed 17 August 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11070CRO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels
Church Location: Huncote Road, Croft, Leicestershire LE9 3GS
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the B4114, 13 km SW of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Guthlaxton [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones, of www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk, for the photograph of this font
There are two entries for this Croft [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP5195/croft/] [accessed 10 August 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. A font here is noted in Pevsner (1984): "Font. Norman. The form is that of a large square capital with plain, large, palm-like upright leaves." Illustrated on the Diocese of Leicester web site [www.st.michael.croft.btinternet.co.uk]. Baptismal font of the leaf-capital type: square at the upper rim, the tapering sides decorated with large palm-like leaves to a round lower rim; raised on a cylindrical stem and a round-to-square lower base with foliage spurs at the corners. The wooden cover is in the style of the four-ribs- around-a-pivot type, probably Victorian, decorated with shields at 90-degree angles.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.559268, -1.248112
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 33′ 33.37″ N, 1° 14′ 53.2″ W
UTM: 30U 618759 5824686

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square-to-round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th century?
Material: wood,
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984