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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - double arches - intersecting arches - columns with capitals and bases

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 January 2009 by Jonathan Billinger [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1139900] [accessed 4 March 2015]

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design element - motifs - interlace - linked rings

Scene Description: double rings [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 January 2009 by Jonathan Billinger [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1139900] [accessed 4 March 2015]

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human figure - head, face or mask

Scene Description: on the northeast side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate] [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Tina Manthorpe, April 2007 [http://www.flickr.com/photos/84265607@N00/2209130622/in/pool-68878292@N00] [accessed 12 April 2008]

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view of basin - east side

Scene Description: with the human mask, face or head on the northeast side

Image Source: deteil of a digital photograph taken 15 October 2011 by Ashley Dace [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2650131] [accessed 4 March 2015]

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view of basin - north side

Image Source: digital photograph by Tina Manthorpe, April 2007 [http://www.flickr.com/photos/84265607@N00/2209130622/in/pool-68878292@N00] [accessed 12 April 2008]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 January 2009 by Jonathan Billinger [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1139895] [accessed 4 March 2015]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 May 2012 by JThomas [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2963087] [accessed 4 March 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 October 2011 by Ashley Dace [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2650135] [accessed 4 March 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking southwest

Scene Description: view across to the west end, with the font visible at the west end of the south aisle, left across the arcade

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 January 2009 by Jonathan Billinger [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1139899] [accessed 4 March 2015]

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view of font in context - east side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate] -- the font at the west end of the south aisle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 October 2011 by Ashley Dace [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2650131] [accessed 4 March 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12424CRO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: 17 Main Street, South Croxton, Leicestershire LE7 3RJ

Country Name: England

Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B674, 7 km NE of Leicester, 11 km SW of Melton-Mowbray

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester

Historical Region: Hundred of Goscote [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle

Century and Period: 12th century [basin only] -- 14th-century (?) [base only] [composite font], Medieval / composite

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for [South] Croxton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SK6910/south-croxton/] [accessed 4 March 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Pevsner (1984) writes: "Font. Norman, of tub shape. Coarsely decorated. A tier of closely-set intersected arches and above this another of intersected rings." Described in the South Croxton web page [www.south-croxton.co.uk/church_history.htm] [accessed 21 October 2007] :"The present church replaced that original building, and dates mostly from the early 14th.century [...] There is evidence of some Norman foundations in the north aisle, which was not built; and the Norman font was placed in the new church, given a 14th. century octagonal base, and is still in use." The bucket-shaped basin has a combination of decorative motifs; the upper basin side has a pattern of linked rings on one side, above a narrow blind arcade of intersecting round arches below; around the back from that, the upper side has the round arches of a much larger and wider arcade similar in design to the other one, but the last arch-head contains a large rounded human face or mask; the lower rim appears to have been decorated with a rope moulding, but it is too worn to be discerned with any certainty. It is a pity that, whereas the other sides, though damaged at the upper rim, have managed to retain the crispness and detail of the original carving, the side with the mask or head, which one would associate with the 'main' side of the font, has lost some its sharpness. The polygonal pedestal base is a later [14th-century?] replacement.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.686343, -0.978015

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 41′ 10.84″ N, 0° 58′ 40.85″ W

UTM: 30U 636670 5839298

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

REFERENCES

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