Ragdale / Ragendele / Rakedale

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 12375RAG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints, Ragdale
Font Location in Church: Inside, aginst a S aisle pillar
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17541841
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Maple Ridge, 9 Six Hills Ln, Ragdale, Melton Mowbray LE14 3PP, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1664 561909
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A46, 8 km W of Melton Mowbray
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Goscote [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
Noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). Described in Pevsner (1984): "Font. Square, with raised angle strips. Four original corner shafts with coarse C13 detail." The Leicestershire Parish Councils site [www.hobywithrotherbypc.org.uk] notes "the curious aquare font (this has four different legs and stands on a marble slab with Latin engravings, which possibly outdates the church building)" [NB: the slab is actually part of the flooring, and is not related to the font]. The entry for this church in CRSBI [https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=9991] [accessed 30 June 2025] notes: "The font stands alongside a pier of the S aisle, and has a square bowl with panelled sides. It stands on four square corner shafts, all differently treated and all with square capitals and bases of a 13thc type, and these stand on a circular step. The SE leg has nailhead on its angles, the SW has 4 clustered shafts, the NW has shafts on the angles, and the NE has chamfered angles. There are traces of red paint on the S face of the bowl and on the NW and SW legs but this may not be original. The bowl may be 12thc, although it appears to match the shafts. The bowl is lead lined [...] The font appears 12thc but may be later". The CRSBI entry [cf. supra] contains three images of the full font.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: lead lined
Diameter (inside rim): 49 cm*
Basin Depth: 26.5 cm*
Basin Total Height: 35.5 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 64.4 x 6.54 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI

REFERENCES

  • Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984, p. 357
  • Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818, [vol. III, part I, p. 513 and pl. lvii / [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 29 September 2007]