Manton / Manatona / Maneton / Manetun / Maynton
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Results: 6 records
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph in Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/manton-st-mary/]] [accessed 14 July 2015]
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns with capitals and bases
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph in Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/manton-st-mary/]] [accessed 14 July 2015]
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: like stylised long-horn heads
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph in Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/manton-st-mary/]] [accessed 14 July 2015]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph in Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/manton-st-mary/]] [accessed 14 July 2015]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph in Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/manton-st-mary/]] [accessed 14 July 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph in Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/manton-st-mary/]] [accessed 14 July 2015]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01835MAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (early?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, just W of the S doorway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Church Lane, Manton, Rutland, LE15 8SP
Site Location: Rutland, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) of the A6003, about 5 km S of Oakham, about 40 km WWN of Peterborough
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Martinsley
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here?)
Font Notes:
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No entry for this Manton found in the Domesday survey. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Norman period here. Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a baptismal font from the Norman period; it consists of a round basin ornamented with a blind arcade mounted on a central support and four outer colonnettes. The Victoria County History (Rutland, vol. 2, 1935) notes: "The advowson of Manton appears to have been held by the Crown during the 12th century. Queen Eleanor presented to the church in 1223. [...] The earliest church on the site was probably a 12th-century aisleless building with small square-ended chancel [...] The early 13th-century font has a circular bowl with simple round arched arcading, standing on five later octagonal shafts."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 655656 5833707
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.6327, -0.7001
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat; date unknown
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. 215
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 27, 79