Church Langton / Church Layton

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Scene Description: date 1660 or 1662 and initials of churchwarden(s)

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/church-langton-st-peter/] [accessed 30 July 2015]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 November 2006 by Andrew Tatlow [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/279954] [accessed 29 September 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/church-langton-st-peter/] [accessed 30 July 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font and its suspended cover are visible at the west end of the south aisle

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/church-langton-st-peter/] [accessed 30 July 2015]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - vestry - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: ""In the vestry is a crudely carved sculpture of a naked standing figure probably Norman." [NB: probably not intended as a 'Sheelag', but a workman (despite the loss of his attributes) holding his tools]

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/church-langton-st-peter/] [accessed 30 July 2015]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 05184CHU

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Church Lane, Church Langton, Leicestershire, LE16 7SZ

Country Name: England

Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located about 8 kms NW of Market Harborough, 65-70 kms W of Peterborough

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester [formerly in the Diocese of Lincoln]

Historical Region: Hundred of Gartree

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

Date: 1660? / 1662?

Century and Period: 15th century / 17th century, Restoration [altered?]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No entry found for Church Langton in the Domesday survey. Cox & Harvey (1907) write that, during the Restoration period, "in a few instances the date 1660 or 1662, accompanied churchwarden initials, are to be found on far older fonts, signalizing the date when they were brought back into the church after Puritan ejection. This is the case [...] with the 15th-cent. font at Church Layton [sic], Leics." [NB: C&H use ""Layton" instead of "Langton", but the font referred to is the same]. Bond (1908) explains that "the fifteenth century font [...] marks the date when it was replaced in the church after Puritan ejection." The Victoria County History (Leicestershire, 1964) notes: "There was no font at the time of the bishop's visitation in 1662 [...] The present font, which retains its original wooden canopy cover, bears the inscription 'T.C.--W.C.--1662', and was mounted on its stand at the west end of the south side in 1865-6.[...]" [source: www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=22059] [accessed 29 September 2006]. Noted in Pevsner (1984): "Font. Completly plain octagonal bowl with a top moulding. Dated 1662. Contemporary two-tier cover." [NB: it is possible that this font might have been buried, hidden, discarded, etc., until the Restoration period when it was re-installed inside the church -- it is also possible that this font was a new one of the 1660s]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.533486, -0.93439

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 32′ 0.55″ N, 0° 56′ 3.8″ W

UTM: 30U 640106 5822382

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: letters and numbers

Inscription Notes: it records the date of its re-installation in the church and the initials of the churchwarden(s) [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: basin sides

Inscription Text: "T.C. -- W.C. -- 1662"

Inscription Source: Cox & Harvey (1907: 175); Bond (1985 c1908: 267); VCH (1964)

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1660s? / Restoration

Material: wood,

Apparatus: yes [counterweight?]

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2006-09-20 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907