Somerby nr. Melton-Mowbray

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Results: 6 records

N/S: human figure - head, face or mask

Scene Description: several [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph [BR3MAB] 11 September 2010 by Colin Underhill in Alarny [ww.alamy.com/stock-photo-font-in-all-saints-church-somerby-leicestershire-england-uk-31429283.html] [accessed 3 August 2021]

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design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches - 8 - pointed - gabled - crocketed

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: on the lower base lobes

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Source caption: "Church of All Saints, Somerby. 12th century origins, with a central tower. The ironstone is heavily weathered (in common with many churches in the area)"

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of All Saints, Somerby. 12th century origins, with a central tower. The ironstone is heavily weathered (in common with many churches in the area)"

Image Source: digital photograph 21 August 2018 by Tim Heaton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5880370] [accessed 3 August 2021]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Somerby, Leics - All Saints Church (nave)"

Image Source: digital photograph 16 May 2018 by Colin Park [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6007306] [accessed 3 August 2021]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the colonnettes of the base appear to be modern replacements

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12421SOM

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: 12A High St / Church Ln, Somerby, Melton Mowbray LE14 2PZ, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located 10 km SE of Melton-Mowbray

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th century (late?), Early English

Font Notes: Click to view

Noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). Described in Pevsner (1984): "Font. Late C13. Richly but coarsely decorated. On eight shafts with eight pointed-trefoiled blank arches. They have gables with long crockets. Heads in the spandrels." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK7794710492] notes: "Parish church. C12, C13, C14. Restored 1714, 1763, further restored 1865 and chancel restored 1883 by R. W. Johnson. North transept (vestry) added by T. Bown, 1887 [...] Late C13 octagonal font with 3 gabled blind arches with crockets and masks, on 8 round shafts."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.6865, -0.84831

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 41' 14.0" N, 0° 50' 55.8" W

UTM: 30U 645435 5839570

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat, with moulded sides; metal decorated top with ring handle; modern

REFERENCES

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

Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818