Mowsley / Muselai

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view of church exterior - south view

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christpher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/mowsley-st-nicholas/] [accessed 19 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking west

showing the font at the west end
Scene Description: showing the font at the west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christpher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/mowsley-st-nicholas/] [accessed 19 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

Font ID: 12359MOW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, centre aisle, W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: Main Street, Mowsley, Leicestershire LE17 6NT, UK
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A50, 18 km SSE of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Gartree [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: altered font? (the present one: modern replacement base?) -- disappeared font? (the one from the original 12th-13thC church here)
Font Notes:
There are two entries for Mowsley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP6489/mowsley/] [accessed 19 August 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. A font here is illustrated in Nichols (1795-1811). Noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). The Victoria County History (Leicestershire, vol. 5, 1964) notes: "The church at Mowsley, like that at Shearsby, was a chapelry in the ancient parish of Knaptoft. It has been believed that part of the west wall of Mowsley church belonged to the 12th century, [...] but the earliest surviving features in the building suggest that much of the fabric dates from the middle of the 13th century. [...] The church was probably built c. 1250 [...] The only certainly 14th-century features are the font and a window in the chancel. The font is octagonal with simple decorated panels, each containing a trefoiled arch in low relief." English Heritage [Listing NGR: SP6470689072] (1966) notes: "Font is late C13: octagonal with trefoiled panels, mounted on a Victorian base." In Pevsner (1984): "Font. Octagonal, Dec[orated], with very simple panels, each enclosing one pointed-trefoiled arch."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 632485 5817985
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.495889, -1.048425
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 29′ 45.2″ N, 1° 2′ 54.33″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • Nichols, John, History and antiquities of the town and County of Leicester, London: John Nichols & Son, 1795-1811, vol. IV, pl. xxxiii
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984, p. 327
  • Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818, [vol. IV, part I, p. 526 and pl. xxxiii / [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 30 September 2007]