Decorated. Stoke Golding. Leicestershire.details

The bowl is octagonal; the east side, which abuts against the westernmost pillar of the nave, is plain, the others are enriched either with crocketed and foliated arches, springing from buttresses, with pinnacles at the angles, and filled with figures, or with shields, or tracery.

The sides shewn in the engraving severally represent St. Cathering, with the wheel and sword; St. Margaret, with a book in her right, and a pastoral staff in her left hand, trampling on a dragon, and on her left side a kneeling figure of a child; the next is occupied by the figure of a Bishop under a canopy. It is singular that this canopy should have features of a much earlier style than the rest, partaking greatly of the Early English character.

On the west, under an ogee canopy, is a shield charged with a chevron between three quatrefoils, and with plain shields in the spandrils.

The north panel is similar, except that the sield is charged with etoiles instead of quatrefoils. The remaining two are filled with tracery formed by a single round moulding, and representing decorated windows.

The Church is a noble specimen of Decorated work, and the Font seems coeval with it.

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