Great Stretton / Stretton Magna

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 12217STR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (early?), Decorated
Cognate Fonts: fonts with varied tracery in this county at Goadby Marwood and Harby
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Giles, Great Stretton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17539693
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Church Address: Great Stretton, Harborough LE2, UK
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A6, 8 km SE of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Font Notes:
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-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984, p. 164, 169