Downham nr. Clitheroe

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Results: 8 records

coat of arms - unidentified - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph by Craig Thornber [www.thornber.net]

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design element - motifs - foliage

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design element - motifs - moulding

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: INT NAVE W W FONT INT W FONT digital photograph taken 22 August 2007 by Alesander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/538027] [accessed 13 April 2016] INT E digital photograph taken 22 August 2007 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/538021] [accessed 13 April 2016] INT W FONT digital photograph taken 22 August 2007 by Alesander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/538020] [accessed 13 April 2016] INT W FONT2 digital photograph taken 22 August 2007 by Alesander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/538033] [accessed 13 April 2016]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2005

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 October 2005 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/410968] [accessed 13 April 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2007 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/538021] [accessed 13 April 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2007 by Alesander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/538027] [accessed 13 April 2016]

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view of font and cover

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2007 by Alesander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/538020] [accessed 13 April 2016]

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view of font and cover in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2007 by Alesander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/538033] [accessed 13 April 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12242DOW
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard
Church Location: Downham, Lancashire BB7 4BN, England
Country Name: England
Location: Lancashire, North West
Directions to Site: Located off the A59, NE of Clitheroe
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Blackburn
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, near the entrance
Century and Period: 16th century, Late Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Craig Thornber, of www.thornber.net, for the photograph of this font.
Church Notes: 15thC tower remains; rest is early-20thC
No individual entry for this Downham found in the Domesday survey. Hartwell & Pevsner (2009) write: "Font. Octagonal, Late Perp[endicular], with shields, not in panels." Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with a large shield on each (two of them charged, the rest blank) raised on a foliated underbowl chamfer, a plain octagonal stem and a moulded lower base, also octagonal; some of the shields on the basin sides are clearly charged, others may be too worn. Octagonal wooden cover with floral finial, an inscription on some of the sides; appears modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.8945, -2.3297
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 53′ 40.2″ N, 2° 19′ 46.92″ W
UTM: 30U 544049 5971992

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Hartwell, Clare, Lancashire North, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2009