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B01: symbol - shield - in a trefoil - 8

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 11524SHE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the B4116, 5 km N of Atherstone
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: the font at Burbage, also in Leics.
Font Notes:
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
Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818