Isley Walton

INFORMATION

Font ID: 13154ISL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: [cfr. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on A453, just S of Castle Donington and E of Melbourne
Additional Comments: disappeared font
Town/City Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isley_cum_Langley
Font Notes:
Illustrated in Nichols (1808). Noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). Gillies Shields (2006), in The United Benefice of Breedon and Worthington web site [www.benefice.org.uk] [accessed 30 September 2007] writes: "According to NICHOLS (History and Antiquities of Leicester 1808) the arms of the Bowyers company were displayed in the church but have since disappeared together with the original Octagon Font also illustrated in his account. The present font is Georgian and described by Sir Nikolaus Pausner [sic] in "The buildings of England - Leicestershire and Rutland 1960" as of "A baluster shape with a stone lid like a soup tureen"."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

  • Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818, [vol. III, part II, p. 519 and pl. cxvii / [http://books.google.com/books?id=gLwuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA228&lpg=PA228&dq=upcott+1818&source=web&ots=lJwT-K00zU&sig=oVT6Kc6G03vqjYf4Synuk_Aek9w#PPP15,M1] [accessed 30 September 2007]