Oadby / Oladebi / Oldebi / Onderby / Outheby

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

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: EXT S digital photograph taken 13 September 2014 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/15298249730/in/photostream/] [accessed 13 July 2015] INT E digital photograph taken 13 September 2014 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/15315618339/in/photostream/] [accessed 13 July 2015] FONT digital photograph taken 13 September 2014 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/15299197847/in/photostream/] [accessed 13 July 2015]
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view of church interior - looking east

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13167OAD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Wigston Road, Oadby, Leicestershire, LE2 5QE
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the A6, 8 km SE of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester [formerly in the Diocese of Lincoln]
Historical Region: Hundred of Guthlaxton [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Aidan McRae Thomson for his photographs of this church and font
Font Notes:
There are three entries for Oadby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK6200/oadby/] [accessed 13 July 2015], neither of which mention cleric or church in it. A font here is noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). The entry for Oadby in English Heritage [Listing NGR: SK6237000384] (1987) notes: " Font probably C14, round basin with deeply moulded rim is supported on a base with trefoiled panels.?

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.5987, -1.0763
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 35′ 55.32″ N, 1° 4′ 34.68″ W
UTM: 30U 630288 5829369

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat octagonal base; low-dome with crocketed arrises and turned finial

REFERENCES

Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818