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B01: design element - motifs - scotia

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B02: design element - motifs - leaf - oak

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R01: design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding

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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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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14499SUL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James the Less

Church Patron Saints: St. James the Less [aka James the Lesser, James the Little, James the Minor, James the Younger]

Country Name: England

Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located 8 km N of Brackley

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 15th century / 17th century, Restoration

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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 Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: round and flat, with metal decorations

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973