Belgrave / Merdegrave

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view of font

Image Source: drawing by J. Langham, in The British Architect and Northern Engineer (vol. 15, January 14, 1881: 14)

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view of church exterior - west end

Source caption: "St Peter's Church - Belgrave. The Norman Church has been much altered. The church is disused and for sale (services ended in 2009) but is grade II listed."

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Peter's Church - Belgrave. The Norman Church has been much altered. The church is disused and for sale (services ended in 2009) but is grade II listed."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 May 2011 by Ashley Dace [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2408704] [accessed 27 July 2015]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Source caption: "Church of St Peter, Belgrave, Leicester. Dating from the 12th century, Grade II* listed. Now closed, looking forlorn, and for sale."

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St Peter, Belgrave, Leicester. Dating from the 12th century, Grade II* listed. Now closed, looking forlorn, and for sale."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 February 2012 by Tim Heaton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2837997] [accessed 27 July 2015]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: 18thC engraving south view in [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/belgrave-church-st-peters/] [accessed 27 July 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking northwest

Scene Description: the 13thC font is visible at the back [west] end of the nave

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Chris Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/belgrave-church-st-peters/] [accessed 27 July 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Source caption: "The four bay arcades date to the 13th century, wooden roof is 16th century" -- the 13thC font is visible at the west end of the centre aisle

Scene Description: Source caption: "The four bay arcades date to the 13th century, wooden roof is 16th century" -- the 13thC font is visible at the west end of the centre aisle

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Chris Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/belgrave-church-st-peters/] [accessed 27 July 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: view from the chancel

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Chris Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/belgrave-church-st-peters/] [accessed 27 July 2015]

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design element - motifs - diaper

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: drawing by J. Langham, in The British Architect and Northern Engineer (vol. 15, January 14, 1881: 14)

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: forming the capitals and bases of the support colonnettes

Image Source: drawing by J. Langham, in The British Architect and Northern Engineer (vol. 15, January 14, 1881: 14)

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 00697BEL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [restored], Early English [altered]

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter [redundant; for sale in 2012]

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

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter [originally dedicated to St. Evroul]

Church Notes: original church pre-1081; base of tower 12thC; [the church was advertised FOR SALE in 2012]

Church Address: Church Road, Belgrave, Leicester LE4 5PE, UK

Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Belgrave is now part of Leicester, to the NNE [off Thurcaston Rd, off the A6030]

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester

Historical Region: Hundred of Goscote

Additional Comments: altered font? (the present one, restored in 19th century) -- disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)

Font Notes: Click to view

A church is documented here by 1081 [cf. infra], but it is not mentioned in either of the two entries for Belgrave [variant spelling] found in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK5907/belgrave/] [accessed 27 July 2015]. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Early English period here. The Victoria County History (Leicester, vol. 4, 1958) notes: "The church of Belgrave with its tithes and eleven virgates was granted to the Norman abbey of St. Evroul (Orne), by Hugh de Grentemesnil at some date before 1081. [...] About 1220 it was stated that the patron of the church was the Abbot of St. Evroul, and that the two chapels of Birstall and South Thurmaston, which Hugh had also given to the abbey, were still attached to the church. [...] The main part of the present church dates from the 13th century, although some features from the 12th-century church have been preserved, including the south doorway and the two lower stages of the tower. [...] The 13th-century font stands in the west end of the nave. It has a circular bowl, supported in six engaged columns separated by dog-tooth ornament." Noted in Pevsner (1984): "Font. E[arly] E[nglish] style, on a stem consisting of six shafts with vertical bands of heavy dogtooth between them, new or renewed in 1857."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 626820 5835977

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.658894, -1.124934

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 39′ 32.02″ N, 1° 7′ 29.76″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: round, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th century?

Material: wood, oak?

Notes: tall pinnacled canopy; Victorian

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 206
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984, p. 267