Decorated. Market Bosworth, Leicestershiredetails

This Font stands at the west end of the nave, and is raised on two steps, with a third and a kneeling-stone attached. Its form is hexagonal, having each side of the bowl ornamented with an ogee crocketed arch, rising from clustered shafts at the angles, which rest on corbels of foliage. Under each arch is a shield supported by a moulded corbel: the shields were most likely originally painted with bearings of the families to whom they belonged, but at present only the ordinaries remain; on the 1st, two bars; 2nd, a frette; 3rd, plain; 4th, two bars; 5th, three chevronels; 6th, a chevron. The cornice is ornamented with the four-leaved flower and the rose. The shaft is clustered and filleted, and has capitals and bases of very good details.

It is a beautiful specimen of the fourteenth century, or Decorated work. The height from the steps is 4ft. 4in.; the diameter of the bowl from angle to angle, 2ft. 9in., of the basin, 2ft. 5in.; depth 1ft. 5in. A small basin let into the board which covers the bowl is now used, as in too many Churches, instead of the Font itself.

The Church is dedicated in honour of Saint Peter.

“Mr. O. Jewitt, of Oxford, who engraved so many of the examples, and to whom the work owes many valuable suggestions.