Elmesthorpe
Image copyright © Rev. Graham Gittings, Elmesthorpe Parish, 2006
Image and permission received (e-mail of 27 September 2006)
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B01: design element - motifs - piping - 4
Scene Description: vertical mouldings at 90-degree angles
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rev. Graham Gittings, Elmesthorpe Parish, 2006
Image Source: detail of an digital photograph by Revd, Graham Gittings, Rector of Elmesthorpe, 2006
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 27 September 2006)
BU01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Scene Description: The 'underbowl' is part of the pedestal base.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rev. Graham Gittings, Elmesthorpe Parish, 2006
Image Source: detail of an digital photograph by Revd, Graham Gittings, Rector of Elmesthorpe, 2006
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 27 September 2006)
LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rev. Graham Gittings, Elmesthorpe Parish, 2006
Image Source: detail of an digital photograph by Revd, Graham Gittings, Rector of Elmesthorpe, 2006
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 27 September 2006)
R01: design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rev. Graham Gittings, Elmesthorpe Parish, 2006
Image Source: detail of an digital photograph by Revd, Graham Gittings, Rector of Elmesthorpe, 2006
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 27 September 2006)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rev. Graham Gittings, Elmesthorpe Parish, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Revd, Graham Gittings, Rector of Elmesthorpe, 2006
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 27 September 2006)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rev. Graham Gittings, Elmesthorpe Parish, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Revd, Graham Gittings, Rector of Elmesthorpe, 2006
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 27 September 2006)
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rev. Graham Gittings, Elmesthorpe Parish, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Revd, Graham Gittings, Rector of Elmesthorpe, 2006
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 27 September 2006)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rev. Graham Gittings, Elmesthorpe Parish, 2006
Image Source: drawing in Elmesthorpe Parish web site [http://members.aol.com/ggvicar/eschurch/images/elm2.jpg] [accessed 21 September 2006]
Copyright Instructions: Rector Graham Gittings gave BSI permission to repro and has offered to send pictures as well (e-mail of 21 Sept 2006)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12200ELM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century [composite], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary, Elmesthorpe
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26337078
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Elmesthorpe Ln, Earl Shilton, Elmesthorpe, Leicester LE9 7PT, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1455 843961
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B581-A47 crossroads, 6 km NE of Hinckley
Additional Comments: recycled font? mortar? / composite font [cf. FonNotes]
Font Notes:
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Noted in Pevsner (1984): "Font. Small, circular, with four roll mouldings in the four main directions up to the rim. Probably C12/13." The Elmesthorpe Parish web site [http://members.aol.com/ggvicar/eschurch/images/elm2.jpg] [accessed 21 September 2006] shows a drwaing of the font with the caption: "The font at St. Mary Elmesthorpe. It was found in a garden in Barwell, and then the bowl part of the font was discovered to be a medieval mortar"; elsewhere in the same web page it is noted: "a historical expert says it was not originally a font but a mortar [...] from the 13th century, of a type from a monast[e]ry." [We are grateful to the Revd. Graham Gittings, Rector of Elmesthorpe, for the images of this font]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Revd. Graham Gittings, Rector of Elmesthorpe, for the images of this font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cauldron-shaped, with corners
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (with corners)
REFERENCES
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984, p. 150