Ab Kettleby / Abkettleby / Chetelbi

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view of basin

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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]

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]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12213ABK

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James

Church Patron Saints: St. James

Country Name: England

Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located on the A202, 5 km N of Melton Mowbray

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th century, Norman

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). Reported in several local websources with 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