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B01: design element - motifs - scotia
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B02: design element - motifs - leaf - oak
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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R01: design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding
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view of font and cover
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the top of the font on the foreground
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 14499SUL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century / 17th century, Restoration
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James the Less
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St_James_the_Less,_Sulgrave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James the Less [aka James the Lesser, James the Little, James the Minor, James the Younger]
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 8 km N of Brackley
Font Notes:
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In Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Font. Octagonal, with leaf ornament, probably of the 1660s". Noted and illustrated in the Parish web site [http://www.sulgrave.org/Sulgrave%20Church/Church01.html] accessed 22 April 2009] : "The octagonal font of local stone with lead lining and a deeply incised design of oak leaves dates from the 15th Century." The octagonal basin has a prominent flat moulding followed down by a thin round one and a deep scotia, while the rest of the tapering side has oak branches at the angles, the leaves spreading out on the sides; plain octagonal stem and plain lower base that splays with a curve to vertical sides.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with metal decorations
REFERENCES
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 421