Pickwell / Pichewelle
Image copyright © Tina Negus, 2010
Standing permission
Results: 4 records
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches - sawtooth pattern - columns with capitals and bases
Scene Description: the saw-tooth pattern is on the arch heads [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tina Negus, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 March 2010 by Tina Negus [www.flickr.com/photos/84265607@N00/4437775766] [accessed 9 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tina Negus, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 March 2010 by Tina Negus [www.flickr.com/photos/84265607@N00/4437775766] [accessed 9 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tina Negus, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 March 2010 by Tina Negus [www.flickr.com/photos/84265607@N00/4437775766] [accessed 9 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Templeman, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 April 2014 by Roger Templeman [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3969412] [accessed 9 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 12430PIC
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Pickwell, Leicestershire, LE14 2QT
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located WNW of Oakham, 21 km NE of Leicester, near the boundary with Rutland
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Gartree
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tina Negus for her photograph of this font
There is an entry for this Pickwell [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK7811/pickwell/] [accessed 9 September 2015]; it mentions a priest, but not a church in it, though there probably was one there. A font here is noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). The Victoria County History (Leicestershire, vol. 5, 1964) notes: "There was a priest, and presumably a church, at Pickwell in 1086. [...] The only visible remains of the Norman church are a fragment of ornament which has been built into the north clerestory and the tub-shaped font, carved with chevrons and intersecting arcades." Noted in Pevsner (1984): "Font. Circular, of drum shape, Norman, with intersecting arches." The font consists of a round, practically cylindrical basin decorated with an arcade of intersection round arches on columns with capitals and bases all around; the arch-heads are decorated with a saw-tooth pattern; roll mouldings on the underbowl; plain round pedestal base on a circular lower base, also plain. The wooden cover is flat and round, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.694415,
-0.83918
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 41′ 39.89″ N,
0° 50′ 21.05″ W
UTM: 30U 646026 5840468
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2006-12-20 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
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
