Nailstone / Nailston
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view of font
Scene Description: the modern font in use
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3131183] [accessed 19 August 2015]
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view of font
Scene Description: as displayed 20 August 2012: the disused old stone basin raised on a tree trunk
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3131185] [accessed 19 August 2015]
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design element - patterns - ribbed
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3131185] [accessed 19 August 2015]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3131185] [accessed 19 August 2015]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/nailstone-church-all-saints/] [accessed 19 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/nailstone-church-all-saints/] [accessed 19 August 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking northwest
Scene Description: with the two fonts by the southwest corner
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/nailstone-church-all-saints/] [accessed 19 August 2015]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the two fonts in the context of the south doorway -- notice the damage around the upper rim of the old font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/nailstone-church-all-saints/] [accessed 19 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the modern font fully visible by the south doorway; the old basin is partially visible in the foreground
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/nailstone-church-all-saints/] [accessed 19 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12360NAI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Main Street, Nailstone, Leics. CV13 0DH, UK
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the M1 and M42, across from the Bosworth airfield, 18 km W of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Sparkenhoe
Additional Comments: disused font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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No entry for Nailstone found in the Domesday survey. A font here is noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). Described in Pevsner (1984): "Font. Octagonal, with rolls or ribs up the edges of the bowl. Disused." Noted and illustrated in Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/nailstone-church-all-saints/] [accessed 19 August 2015]: "The medieval font is still present but not now used it probably dates from the 13th century and is now placed on a log as it is missing its base. The Victorian font is by the side near the south doorway."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church and fonts
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 609334 5835728
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.66047, -1.38343
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 39′ 37.69″ N, 1° 23′ 0.35″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984, p. 328
- Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818, [vol. IV, part II, p. 534 and pl. cxxix / [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 7 October 2007]