Kilby / Cilebi
Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
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Results: 2 records
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/kilby-church-st-mary-magdalene/] [accessed 17 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mat Fascione, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 April 2007 by Mat Fascione [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/401553] [accessed 17 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01624KIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (early?), Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary Magdalene
Church Notes: original church here early-13thC
Church Address: Kilby, Leicestershire LE18 3TD
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A5199, just W of Wistow, 10 km ESE of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Guthlaxton
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original early-13thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Kilby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP6295/kilby/] [accessed 13 August 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font in Kilby, Lincs., is listed in Simpson (1828) and in Cox & Harvey (1907), a baptismal font of the Decorated period [NB: Simpson gives the county as Lincolnshire]. White's Directory of 1862 notes: "The font is of marble found in the
neighbourhood". Williamson & Pevsner (1998 repr. 2001) report a small 18th-century font in pieces in this church.
neighbourhood". Williamson & Pevsner (1998 repr. 2001) report a small 18th-century font in pieces in this church.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk], for his photograph of this modern font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 629593 5824556
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.555629, -1.088434
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 33′ 20.26″ N, 1° 05′ 18.36″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: type unknown
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 208
- Simpson, Francis, A series of ancient baptismal fonts: chronologically arranged, drwan by F. Simpson, Jun., engraved by R. Roberts, London: Septimus Prowett, 1828, p. xxiv