Ratcliffe-on-the-Wreake / Radeclive

Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015

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design element - motifs - unidentified

Scene Description: the broken off motifs are no longer identifiable; notice the crude workmanship of the basin, and the later-date base

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/ratcliffe-on-the-wreake-st-botolphs/] [accessed 19 August 2015]

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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/ratcliffe-on-the-wreake-st-botolphs/] [accessed 19 August 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/ratcliffe-on-the-wreake-st-botolphs/] [accessed 19 August 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/ratcliffe-on-the-wreake-st-botolphs/] [accessed 19 August 2015]

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view of font and cover in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/ratcliffe-on-the-wreake-st-botolphs/] [accessed 19 August 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12380RAT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Botolph
Church Patron Saints: St. Botulph [aka St. Botolph, Botolph of Thorney, Botulf]
Church Location: 32 Church Lane, Ratcliffe on the Wreake, Leics. LE7 4SF
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A46, SE of Melton Mowbray, 15 km NE of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Goscote
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end, S side
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only] -- 19th century [base only], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church and font
There is an entry for Ratcliffe [on-the-Wreake] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK6314/ratcliffe-on-the-wreake/] [accessed 19 August 2015] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. English Heritage [Listing NGR: SK6304614534] (1966) reports a "C12/C13 round font on probably C19 octagonal base". A font here is noted in Pevsner (1984): "Font. C12 or C13, bowl-shaped, with four knobs originally no doubt carved with motifs."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.724484, -1.068186
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 43′ 28.14″ N, 1° 4′ 5.47″ W
UTM: 30U 630462 5843373

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain; modern

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984