Broad Blunsdon / Blunsdon St. Leonard

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B01: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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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 church exterior - south view

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view of font and cover

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view of font cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13697BLU

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard

Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard

Country Name: England

Location: Wiltshire, South West

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A419, just N of Swindon

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, N side of the centre aisle

Century and Period: 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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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.

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]