Branston / Branston-by-Belvoir / Brantestone

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2012 by J.Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3107802] [accessed 4 November 2014]

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches - beaded-tape motif

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2012 by J.Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3107802] [accessed 4 November 2014]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

EXT SE digital photograph taken 12 August 2012 by J.Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3107791] [accessed 4 November 2014]
INT E digital photograph taken 12 August 2012 by J.Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3107793] [accessed 4 November 2014]
INT W END digital photograph taken 12 August 2012 by J.Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3107813] [accessed 4 November 2014]
FONT digital photograph taken 12 August 2012 by J.Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3107802] [accessed 4 November 2014]

Scene Description: EXT SE digital photograph taken 12 August 2012 by J.Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3107791] [accessed 4 November 2014] INT E digital photograph taken 12 August 2012 by J.Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3107793] [accessed 4 November 2014] INT W END digital photograph taken 12 August 2012 by J.Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3107813] [accessed 4 November 2014] FONT digital photograph taken 12 August 2012 by J.Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3107802] [accessed 4 November 2014]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2012 by J.Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3107791] [accessed 4 November 2014]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: at the west end of the nave, beneath the gallery

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2012 by J.Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3107813] [accessed 4 November 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2012 by J.Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3107793] [accessed 4 November 2014]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 12184BRA

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Guthlac

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Guthlac [aka Guthlake]

Church Address: Main St, Branston-by-Belvoir, Leicestershire, NG32 1RU, UK

Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located off the A607, NNE of Waltham on the Wolds, in the Vale of Belvoir

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester

Historical Region: Hundred of Framland

Font Notes: Click to view

There is an entry for this Branston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SK8129/branston/] [accessed 4 November 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The font in this church is noted in Pevsner (1984): "Font. Norman, octagonal, with intersected beaded arches."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 648203 5858623

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.856908, -0.798772

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 51′ 24.87″ N, 0° 47′ 55.58″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood and metal

Apparatus: no

Notes: round, flat and plain wooden [oak?] platform, with metal scroll-rib openwork and gilded cross finial

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984, p. 109