Broad Blunsdon / Blunsdon St. Leonard
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B01: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - 8
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BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding
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BBU01: design element - motifs - moulding
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BU01: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
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CR01: design element - motifs - moulding
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
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UB01: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
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view of font and cover
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of font cover
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13697BLU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, N side of the centre aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Leonard
Site Location: Wiltshire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A419, just N of Swindon
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with deeply-carved floral motifs inscribed in quatrefoil-in-a-circle panels, these dandwiched between graded mouldings at the upper and lower sides of the basin; the chamfered underbowl is decorated with trefoiled windows, as are the sides of the octagonal pedestal base; the lower base is also octagonal and moulded; the plinth is octagonal and attached to one of the pillars on the north arcede of the centre aisle, at the west end of the nave, opposite the south entrance. The wooden font cover is octagonal and flat, heavy, with metal decoration and ring handle; probably Victorian. The font itself appears to be of the 15th century, Perpendicular.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Duncan & Mandy Ball, of www.oodwooc.co.uk, for their photographs of church and font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century? / Victorian?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]