Illston-on-the-Hill / Ilston / Eluestone / Elvestone / Neluestone / Nelvestone
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Results: 8 records
LBH01: human figure - head, face or mask - grotesque
Scene Description: this one rather human
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © jmc4, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 October 2006 by jmc4 [www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/7073307367/in/photostream/] [accessed 13 August 2015]
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LBH02: human figure - head, face or mask - grotesque
Scene Description: this one rather human, as well
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 October 2006 by jmc4 [www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/7073307363/in/photostream//in/photostream/] [accessed 13 August 2015]
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LBH03: human figure - head, face or mask - grotesque
Scene Description: this one rather animal
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 October 2006 by jmc4 [www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/7073307353/in/photostream//in/photostream/] [accessed 13 August 2015]
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design element - patterns - interlace
Scene Description: although Pevsner [cf. Font notes] calls it "concentric mandorla design"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/illston-on-the-hill-st-michael-all-angels/] [accessed 13 August 2015]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/illston-on-the-hill-st-michael-all-angels/] [accessed 13 August 2015]
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design element - architectural - column - 3
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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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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Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 October 2006 by jmc4 [www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/6927269268] [accessed 13 August 2015]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12183ILL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1200?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael & All Angels
Church Address: Main Street, Illston on the Hill, Leicestershire LE7 9EG, UK
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: damaged font (very eroded)
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 30U 638283 5828288
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.587015, -0.958776
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 35′ 13.25″ N, 0° 57′ 31.6″ W
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-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984, p. 185
- Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818, [vol. II, part II, p. 503] and pl. xcv. [on the letter-press] / [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 23 September 2007]