Great Stretton

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B01: design element - patterns - tracery

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 12217STR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Giles
Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 8 km SE of Leicester
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century (early?), Decorated
Cognate Fonts: fonts with varied tracery in this county at Goadby Marwood and Harby
The Victoria County History (Leicestershire, 1964) reports that the baptismal font in this church, along with a number of other elements of this church "were the subject of unfavourable reports in 1619 and, again, in 1639 [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=22049] [accessed 25 September 2006]. Later in the same entry the font is described as "a good early-14th-century octagonal font, the panels carved with Decorated window tracery of various designs. In Pevsner (1984): "Font. Octagonal, Dec[orated], with panels displaying, as in a pattern book, reticulated and flowing tracery {cf. Goadby Marwood, Harby)."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2006-09-25 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984