Sheepy Magna / Great Sheepy / Great Shepey / Scepa

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 11524SHE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: the font at Burbage, also in Leics.
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints, Sheepy Magna
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17540860
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: The Rectory, Church Ln, Sheepy Magna, Atherstone CV9 3RA, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1827 881389
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B4116, 5 km N of Atherstone
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Guthlaxton [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: damaged font / abandoned font: perishing in the churchyard [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Sheepy [Magna] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK3201/sheepy-magna/] [accessed 22 June 2025]; it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Noted in Gough (1792) as a baptismal font similar to the one in Burbage, in the same county: "That at Great Shepey [sic] is also octagon, and contained similar shields. It has been removed out of the church in a late repair, and is now perishing in the church-yard." Noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). Pevsner (1984) notes: "Font. Late Perp[endicular], octagonal, with shields in round-arched trefoiled panels."

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
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984, p. 373
  • 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. 536 and pl. cxlvi / [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 7 October 2007]