Ab Kettleby / Abkettleby / Chetelbi
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in The Megalithic Portal [http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=a312&file=index&do=showpic&pid=8910] [accessed 25 September 2007]
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view of basin in context
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Babylone6tem.com, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph in The Megalithic Portal [http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=a312&file=index&do=showpic&pid=8910] [accessed 25 September 2007]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12213ABK
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James, Ab Kettleby
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_James%27_Church,_Ab_Kettleby
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James the Greater
Church Address: Ab Kettleby, Melton Mowbray LE14 3HT, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1664 812191
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A202, 5 km N of Melton Mowbray
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). Reported in several local web sources as a Norman font [source: www.townfacts.co.uk/new_page_214.htm] [accessed 25 September 2006]. [NB: there is no mention of a font here in Pevsner (1984)]. The Megalithic Portal site [www.megalithic.co.uk] [aacessed 25 September 2007] notes and illustrates the well at Ab Kettleby; at the top of the well parapet is an object that has been suggested as the upturned basin of a baptismal font [NB: the object does have the general shape of a basin, but the ornamentation and side holes argue against such an identification, unless it had been used as a farm trough at some point].
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
- Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818, p. 499 and pl.1 [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]