Ashby Parva / Essebi / Little Ashby
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 April 2013 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3423265] [accessed 24 July 2015]
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view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mat Fascione, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 April 2013 by Mat Fascione [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3447153] [accessed 24 July 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 April 2013 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3423252] [accessed 24 July 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 April 2013 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3423244] [accessed 24 July 2015]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Scene Description: part of the modern base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 April 2013 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3423265] [accessed 24 July 2015]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12180ASH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, by the N doorway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Main Street, Ashby Parva, Leicestershire LE17 5HS, UK
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A426, 14-15 km SSW of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Guthlaxton [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: altered font? (12thC basin on 19thC base)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Ashby [Parva] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP5288/ashby-parva/] [accessed 24 July 2015]. but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font here is noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). Described in Pevsner (1984): "Font. Norman hemispherical bowl on a modern base." The font consists of a roughly hemispherical basin raised on a similarly-shaped base that has a thick rope moulding atop, giving the font the appearance of an hour-glass; both the moulding and the base are a 19th-century replacement of the original base. The cover is round, flat and plain; date unknown.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 620292 5817226
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.491894, -1.228199
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 29′ 30.82″ N, 1° 13′ 41.51″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984, p. 87
- Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818, [vol. IV, part I, p. 524-525 and pl. xi / [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]