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LBH01: head, face or mask - grotesque

Scene Description: this one rather human

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LBH02: head, face or mask - grotesque

Scene Description: this one rather human, as well

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LBH03: head, face or mask - grotesque

Scene Description: this one rather animal

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design element - architectural - column - 3

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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design element - patterns - interlace

Scene Description: although Pevsner [cf. Font notes] calls it "concentric mandorla design"

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of font and cover in context

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view of font and cover in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12183ILL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels

Church Location: Main Street, Illston on the Hill, Leicestershire LE7 9EG

Country Name: England

Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B6047, SSW of Billesdon, 5-6 km N of Kibworth Harcourt, 13 km ESE of Leicester

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester

Historical Region: Hundred of Gartree

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: ca. 1200?

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are four entries for Illston [on-th-Hill] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP7099/illston-on-the-hill/] [accessed 13 August 2015], but they mention neither cleric nor church in them. An early font here is noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). The Victoria County History (Leicestershire, 1964) notes: "In 1220 Illston chapel belonged half to Noseley and half to Carlton Curlieu. [...] The oldest surviving features are of the late 13th century but the font may have belonged to an earlier building. The font has a round bowl with traces of incised interlacing circles and a triangular stem with angle shafts terminating in carved masks". In Pevsner (1984): "Font. Circular bowl with incised concentric mandorla design. Unusual triangular base with plain angle shafts and masks above them. Possibly C12 or c. 1200." Two of the grotesque masks or heads are rather human; the third is animal-like; the are supported on colonnettes, one of them broken; the basin surface is in terrible condition, some of it breaking off in layers; the 3-strand interlace is crude and very shallow, incised rather than carved.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.587015, -0.958776

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 35′ 13.25″ N, 0° 57′ 31.6″ W

UTM: 30U 638283 5828288

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2006-09-20 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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