Sproxton nr. Melton Mowbray

Noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). White's Directory of 1877 reports: "The font, which is octagonal and in the Early English style, like that of Kettering, in Northamptonshire, is very handsome, and bears traces of painting." Noted in Pevsner (1984): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with quatrefoiled panels and castellation (cf. Buckminster)." Nick A. Cooke's 'The Church of St Bartholomew: a history of the parish and description of its church' [http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/nacooke/sproxton/] [accessed 20 December 2006] includes an old plan of the church [originally from Nichols?] which shows the font located in the south aisle, just east of the south entrance, and describes the font: "The fine 15th century octagonal font has an elaborate bowl carved with a sunken quatrefoil on each of its eight sides. It has an embattled top with incised crosses 'pommees' in the embrasures. On the underside of the bowl, at the corners and below the quatrefoils, are carved heads and leaf designs. The stem is carved with blind tracery and sits upon a spurred base. The font in St John the Baptist's church at nearby Buckminster is of almost identical detail, but the Buckminster font differs in being, most unusually, six sided."