Blaby / Bladi / Blady

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 8 August 2009 by Christopher Jones [http://www.flickr.com/photos/glugwine/3827808052/in/set-72157621932655555/]] [accessed 17 August 2009]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Chris Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/blaby-church-all-saints/] [accessed 27 July 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Chris Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/blaby-church-all-saints/] [accessed 27 July 2015]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: at the west end of the nave

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2009 by Christopher Jones [http://www.flickr.com/photos/glugwine/3827808052/in/set-72157621932655555/] [accessed 17 August 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15151BLA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: 12 Church St., Blaby, Leicester LE8 4FA

Country Name: England

Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B582, E of the A426, 8 km SSW of Leicester

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester

Historical Region: Hundred of Guthlaxton

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones, of www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: ancient [12th-13thC?] church; repaired and enlarged 1844

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Blaby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP5797/blaby/] [accessed 27 July 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Baptismal font consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with with two parallel round mouldings; raised on a splaying pedestal base possibly of later date [or re-tooled?], and a round plinth. The wooden cover has a round base with an inscription ["Suffer little children to come unto me"], the eight arrises crocketed and a florid finial; modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.575577, -1.160032

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 34′ 32.08″ N, 1° 9′ 36.11″ W

UTM: 30U 624683 5826649

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]