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LB01: animal - claw - 4

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 12358NEV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Chapel of St. Mary [attached to the Parish Church of St. Giles, Medbourne]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located near (adjacent to) Medbourne, itself 23 km SE of Leicester
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1150
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Norman
Font Notes:
Noted in the Victoria County History (Leicestershire, 1964): "a font which is a relic of an earlier church of c. 1150." [source: www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=22062] [accessed 22 November 2006]. In Pevsner (1984): "Font. Norman, of tub shape, on a square base, with claws at the angles."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2006-11-22 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984