Seagrave / Segrave

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. [We are grateful to John Waddington, of www.scsparishchurches.org.uk, for the photograph of this font]