Leverton / Leuretune

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Source caption: "St Helena's Church, Leverton. It is Grade I listed."
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Helena's Church, Leverton. It is Grade I listed."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Neil Theasby, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 13 September 2020 by Neil Theasby [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6601968] [accessed 20 August 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

INFORMATION

Font ID: 05437LEV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Helen
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Helena
Church Address: A52, Boston PE22 0AZ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1205 760480
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A52 [dir. Skegness], in the municipality and 9 km ENE of Boston
Historical Region: Hundred of Wolmersty [Domesday]
Additional Comments: cost of font / price of font [cf. FontNotes] -- disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Leverton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF3947/leverton/] [accessed 20 August 2022]; it reports a priest and a church in it. Baptismal font described in Gough (1792): "octagon, the sides adorned with niches and a border of quatrefoils in rounds, and the shaft has niches." In Allen (1833) after Gough. Bond (1908) does not describe the font itself, but cites archival sources related to the presence of a baptismal font and work related to it and its cover as early as the end of the 15th century, which accounts for the font's earlier date: "At Leverton there was paid in 1498 'for stabelles and hoder things to ye font. iijd.'; in 1503 'for a lokke makyng to ye font, iid.'; in 1506 'for a loke makyng to hyng of ye font, id.; in 1536 'to Karver of Boston whan he cam to se ye fonte, iiijd.'; and 'to ye same for makyng a covering to the fonte, 5s.'" Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], each panel with four small, very slim arches and four small quatrefoils over (cf. Frieston)." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF3999247887] notes: "Parish church. C14, C15, late C15, restored 1892 [...] Late C14 octagonal font with tail trefoiled panels with quatrefoil frieze to rim, with matching stem and bell moulded base on 3 octagonal steps."

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 304093 5877038
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.007, 0.08
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 0′ 25.2″ N, 0° 4′ 48″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. Font notes for archival sources] - it is not clear whether or not the lid or any of the related items have survived

REFERENCES

  • Allen, Thomas, The History of the County of Lincoln, from the earliest period to the present time [...], London & Lincoln: John Saunders, Junior, 1833-, vol. 1: 273
  • Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 284, 305
  • Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; p. 193
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989, p. 435