Stathern
Image copyright © Colin Hyde, 2006
Image and permission to reprint received (e-mail of 15 January 2007)
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design element - motifs - floral? - 8
![at the bottom end of each angle of the octagonal basin [could be heads or masks]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1070116005_compressed.png)
Scene Description: at the bottom end of each angle of the octagonal basin [could be heads or masks]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hyde, 2006
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Colin Hyde, 2006 [East Midlands Oral History Archive [www.le.ac.uk/emoha]]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission to reprint received (e-mail of 15 January 2007)
design element - motifs - tracery
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hyde, 2006
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Colin Hyde, 2006 [East Midlands Oral History Archive [www.le.ac.uk/emoha]]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission to reprint received (e-mail of 15 January 2007)
view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Guthlac's Church, Stathern, Leicestershire, England"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph 29 March 2003 by Davearrgh [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Guthlac's_Church,_Stathern.jpg] [accessed 26 January 2025]
Copyright Instructions: PD-user
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hyde, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Colin Hyde, 2006 [East Midlands Oral History Archive [www.le.ac.uk/emoha]]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission to reprint received (e-mail of 15 January 2007)
INFORMATION
FontID: 12426STA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Guthlac
Church Patron Saints: St. Guthlac [aka Guthlake]
Church Location: Church Cottage, 6 Church Ln, Stathern, Melton Mowbray LE14 4HB, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 15-16 km NE of Melton-NMowbray
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Late Decorated? / Early Perperndicular?
Cognate Fonts: decorations as on the fonts at Goadby Marwood and Harby [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hyde, of the East Midlands Oral History Archive [www.le.ac.uk/emoha] for the photographs of this font.
Font Notes:
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Noted in Pevsner (1984): "Font. Octagonal, with blank tracery patterns as at Goadby Marwood and Harby, but here including Perp[endicular] motifs." Noted in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK7729130948]: "Octagonal font with 2- light blank tracery patterns to bowl including Perpendicular motifs."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 52′ 13.8″ N, 0° 51′ 11.55″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and raised handle
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984