Wigston Magna No. 1 / Great Wigston / Great Wigstone / Wichingestone / Wigston / Wigstone / Wigstone Magna
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view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 June 2009 by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/wigston-magna-all-saints/] [accessed 28 August 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 June 2009 by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/wigston-magna-all-saints/] [accessed 28 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the 18th-century font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 June 2009 by Christopher Jones [www.flickr.com/photos/glugwine/3672595553/in/set-72157620738080030/] [accessed 17 August 2009]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05291WIG
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints, St. Wistan
Church Location: Moat Street, Wigston, Leics. LE18 2LA
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the A5199, in the SE suburbs of Leicester, 8 km from the town centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Guthlaxton
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones, of www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: original church probably by 1086; present church ca.1280-1320?
There are two entries for Wigston [Magna] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP6098/wigston-magna/] [accessed 28 August 2015], one of which mentions a priest, but not a church in it, though there probably was one there. Bond (1908) cites a record of "1s. 8d." spent on a cover for the font in 1599, but does not mention the font itself. The older font was replaced in the late 18th century, by a new one noted in Pevsner (1984): "Font. Slender, Georgian, of alabaster, given by Elizabeth Clarke" [who died in 1781]. [NB: we have no other information on the old font, nor of the font that may have existed in the other medieval church in Wiston Magna, St. Wistan's, a 13th-14th century church that, according to Pevsner (ibid.) was "pulled down in the early C17 and not rebuilt until 1853". -- [NB: not clear whether or not baptisms were carried out in it or not; we are not aware of a font at St. Wistan's]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.582226,
-1.110315
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 34′ 56.02″ N,
1° 6′ 37.13″ W
UTM: 30U 628032 5827475
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1599
Notes: It costed 1s. 8d. in 1599
REFERENCES
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984
