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Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2005 by Edward Rokita [http://www.derbyshire-photographs.co.uk/calke100046.html] [accessed 18 October 2009]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 15514CAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Church of St. Giles / Calke Abbey Church
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26388766
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Site Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6 km N of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 18 km S of Derby
Font Notes:
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Described in Kelly's Directory of 1881: "The font is Early English of the thirteenth century, coinsisting of a large bowl on four clustered shafts". The basin is almost hemispherical; the lower base is formed by the bases of the shafts.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, London: Kelly & Co., 1881, p. 942