Burbage / Burbach / Burbage by Hinckley / Burbece

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 11523BUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Early Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Catherine of Alexandria, Burbage
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17541046
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Catherine of Alexandria [aka Katherine, Katharine]
Church Address: 1 Hinckley Rd, Burbage, Hinckley LE10 2AF, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1455 230512
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the M69, on the W side of Hinckley
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Guthlaxton [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Burbage [variant spellin] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SP4492/burbage/] [accessed 22 June 2025]; it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Gough (1792) writes: "Burbach [sic] font is octagon; on three sides are the arms of Hastings, Stafford, and Chawell; on the others, Gothic tracery." Noted and illustrated in Nichols (1875-1811). Noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). In Pevsner (1984): "Font. Probably C14, octagonal, with square panels with tracery, quatrefoils, and shields." [see also entry for Aston Flamville, Leics]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

  • 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 and fn
  • Nichols, John, History and antiquities of the town and County of Leicester, London: John Nichols & Son, 1795-1811, p. 261 and pl. V
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984, p. 117
  • Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818, [vol. IV, part II, p. 530 and pl. lxxiv / [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]