Seagrave / Segrave
Image copyright © Parish of All Saints, Seagrave, 2006
Permission from the webmaster, John Waddington, received (e-mail of 23 December 2006]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Parish of All Saints, Seagrave, 2006
Image Source: digital pohotograph in the United Benefice of Sileby, Cossington and Seagrave, 2006 [www.scsparishchurches.org.uk/Seagrave%20Church.htm]
Copyright Instructions: Permission from the webmaster, John Waddington, received (e-mail of 23 December 2006]
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Parish of All Saints, Seagrave, 2006
Image Source: digital pohotograph in the United Benefice of Sileby, Cossington and Seagrave, 2006 [www.scsparishchurches.org.uk/Seagrave%20Church.htm]
Copyright Instructions: Permission from the webmaster, John Waddington, received (e-mail of 23 December 2006]
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12417SEA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only] -- 19th century [base only], Medieval / composite
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints, Seagrave
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17534317
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Seagrave, Loughborough LE12 7LT, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1509 812493
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A46, 16 km NNE of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Goscote [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: altered font / painted font: in 1777 the font was ordered scraped and re-painted [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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A report of a visitation/inspection of Seagrave parish church "[LLRRO ref. ID/41/18/21 p. 23], volume title: Bickham Parochial Visitations 1774-1788. Visitation by Rev. James Bickham D.D. Archdeacon of Leicester" [www.leicestervillages.com/uploads/1777visitationinspection.doc] [accessed 19 December 2006] ordered: "the Stone font to be scraped and painted of a Stone colour". Noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). There is no mention of the font is Lewis' Dictionary of 1848. The Benefice web site [www.scsparishchurches.org.uk/Seagrave%20Church.htm] illustrates the font and notes that it "is the oldest part of the church and is set on a 19th century base". Pevsner (1984) notes: "Font. Norman, circular, with crude arcade with segmented arches." The font consists of the original Norman basin decorated with a blind arcade of broad round arches, raised on a circular base [cf. supra] decorated with several parallel roll mouldings; it is raised on a modern quadrangular plinth. The low dome cover is probably from the same date as the base, the 19th century.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Waddington, of www.scsparishchurches.org.uk, for the photograph of this font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th century?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984, p. 371
- 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. lxi / [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]