Harby nr. Melton Mowbray / Herdebi / Hertebi

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 12218HAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1609?
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(early?)
Cognate Fonts: fonts with varied tracery in this county at Great Stretton and Harby
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary, Harby
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, S aisle
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17541487
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: School Ln, Harby, Melton Mowbray LE14 4BA, UK
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 13 km N of Melton Mowbray
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Framland [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
Noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). Decsribed in White's Directory of 1877: "The font, which stands in the south aisle, bears the date 1609, and is in the Decorated style." In Pevsner (1984) as a baptismal font with varied tracery patterns as in Great Stretton and Harby, in the same county.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Text: [1609]
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984, p. 164, 174
  • 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. lviii, fig. 10 / [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]
  • White, William, History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Leicester and Rutland, [s.l.]: [Printed for the author], 1877, [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~framland/Ag/maps/harby.htm] [accessed 26 September 2006]