Sileby / Seglebi / Siglebi
Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
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design element - motifs - varied
Scene Description: some decorative motifs can still be discerned on the underbowl and stem: rib-like, roundels,...
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/sileby-st-mary/] [accessed 24 August 2015]
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/sileby-st-mary/] [accessed 24 August 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/sileby-st-mary/] [accessed 24 August 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
![the top of the wooden cover is visible at the far [west] end of the left [south] bank of benches in the nave, towards the south arcade](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1151005065_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the top of the wooden cover is visible at the far [west] end of the left [south] bank of benches in the nave, towards the south arcade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/sileby-st-mary/] [accessed 24 August 2015]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/sileby-st-mary/] [accessed 24 August 2015]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/sileby-st-mary/] [accessed 24 August 2015]
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view of font cover
Scene Description: the modern font with the inscription on the lower left side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/sileby-st-mary/] [accessed 24 August 2015]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 20014SIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church Lane Little, Sileby, Leicestershire LE12 7RX
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A6, 13 km NNE of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Goscote
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, towards the S arcade
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Transitional / Early English
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church and font
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for Sileby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK6015/sileby/] [accessed 24 August 2015], one of which mentions a priest, but not a church in it, though there probably was one here. The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: SK6005115174] (1966) reports a font of the 12th-13th century here. The font is rather awkward looking: plain round basin tapers off with rib-like protrusions at 90-degree angles; round lower base. On a modern quadrangular plinth. Wooden cover is bell-shaped octagonal. with carved lower sides; arrises on the dome part and turned finial; modern, with a dedication and the name of Eliza Morsley carved on the lower side. The font itself is a crude work.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.733761, -1.105457
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 44′ 1.54″ N, 1° 6′ 19.64″ W
UTM: 30U 627918 5844338
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: bell-shaped octagonal, with carved lower sides; arrises on the dome; turned finial