Thornton nr. Leicester

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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 16

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - cusped - 16

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel

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unidentified

Scene Description: the original carving scraped off [cf. FontNotes]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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view of font and cover

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view of font cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12434THO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Thornton, Leicestershire LE67 1AA

Country Name: England

Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the M1, 12 km WNW of Leicester (access from the B5380, A50)

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester

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

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No entry for this Thornton found in the Domesday survey. A font here is noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). Described in Pevsner (1984): "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal, with the usual panels with quatrefoils, but not arranged in the usual way. Large square feature of stone blocks, the lowest element of a former font base. Once thought to be a maze." The basin has a row of rosettes above, with a row of pointed quatrefoils below, all framed by parallel roll mouldings; the underbowl appears to be a separate block from both basin and base, a case not uncommon in English fonts of the period; it had carving on the chamfered sides, probably cherub heads or foliage, but the carving appears to have been totally scraped off; the roll moulding at the bottom has been retained; the octagonal stem has a trefoiled arch or window on each side; plain splaying lower base, also octagonal. The wooden cover has an almost flat octagonal pyramid base on which is the usual arrangement of four scroll ribs around a centre pivot, with a cross finial; date unknown.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.664281, -1.309005

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 39′ 51.41″ N, 1° 18′ 32.42″ W

UTM: 30U 614357 5836268

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

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