Ashby Parva / Essebi / Little Ashby

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design element - motifs - rope moulding
view of church exterior - north view
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of church interior - nave - looking west
INFORMATION
FontID: 12180ASH
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Main Street, Ashby Parva, Leicestershire LE17 5HS
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
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]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, by the N doorway
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.491894,
-1.228199
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 29′ 30.82″ N,
1° 13′ 41.51″ W
UTM: 30U 620292 5817226
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
Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818