Saxelbye / Saxelbie / Saxelby / Saxulby
Image copyright © [Emeline Garnett, 2005]?
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B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [Emeline Garnett, 2005]?
Image Source: drawing, probably by Emeline Garnett in www.brooksby.org/family/old-family.html [accessed 25 September 2006]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [Emeline Garnett, 2005]?
Image Source: drawing, probably by Emeline Garnett in www.brooksby.org/family/old-family.html [accessed 25 September 2006]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12214SAX
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter, Saxelbye
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17541376
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Church Ln, Saxelbye, Melton Mowbray LE14 3PA, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1664 812191
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A6006, 6 km WNW of Melton Mowbray
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Goscote [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
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A multiple place entry in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK7021/saxelby/] [accessed 29 June 2025] includes Saxelby [variant spelling] together with another twenty-one places; the entry mentions a priest, but no church, in it. Noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). Described in Pevsner (1984): "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal, castellated, better than the usual run of Perp[endicular] fonts." Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin raised on a pedestal formed by clustered columns, and a plain quadrangular lower base or plinth; the sides of the basin are decorated with large quatrefoil motifs, the upper rim of the basin is crenellated. Plain wooden cover. A drawing of this font can be found at www.brooksby.org/family/old-family.html [accessed 25 September 2006]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984, p. 368
- Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818, [vol. III, part I, p. 513 and pl. lx / [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 29 September 2007]