Newton Regis / Newton-in-the-Thistles / Niwetone

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view of church exterior - northwest view
view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "The church was built in the 13th century on the site of an earlier church. The chancel was rebuilt around 1320. The tower was remodelled, heightened and topped by a spire around 1340. The whole building was restored internally in 1905 and externally in 1908."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trevor Rickard, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 March 2010 by Trevor Rickard [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1780966] [accessed 9 December 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "One of two baptism fonts inside the church"
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 July 2013 by SMacB [www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMHHZM_Baptism_Font_St_Marys_Newton_Regis_Warwickshire] [accessed 9 December 2014]
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view of font or stoup
Scene Description: Source caption: "One of two baptism fonts inside the church"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © SMacB, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 July 2013 by SMacB [www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMHHZN_Baptism_Font_St_Marys_Newton_Regis_Warwickshire] [accessed 9 December 2014]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05484NEW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Austrey Lane, Newton Regis, Warwickshire B79 0NJ
Country Name: England
Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the M42, 8 km NE of Tamworth, 13 SW of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, N of Nuneaton, S of Burton-upon-Trent, at the borders of three other counties: Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Staffordshire
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Birmingham [formerly in the Diocese of Lichfield and Coventry]
Historical Region: Hundred of Hemlingford
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Font Notes:
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Kelly's Directory of Warwickshire (1896) has: "NEWTON REGIS, in Domesday “Niwetone” [NB: we were unable to locate the Domesday entry for NR]. Bond (1908) writes of a small stoup or fontlet that "was seen at Newton Regis, in the rectory backyard". [NB: present whereabouts unknown]. Is the basin of the present font at the eastern end of the church the reported stoup in Bond? The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 4, 1947) notes: "The lower part of the tower dates from the early 13th century; it was probably an addition to a 12th-century or earlier main body. The chancel was rebuilt (c. 1320), and had a south vestry: the nave was rebuilt soon afterwards (c. 1330–40), and the west tower was remodelled and heightened and the spire erected. [...] The font is modern. Another, disused, of the 18th century has a cup-shaped bowl with a band of basket fluting around the top edge." [NB: this is now [2013] mounted on a pedestal -- is it used as a font?]. The other font in use is listed in English Heritage [Listing NGR: SK2791907468] (1953) as 19th-century. [NB: we have not been able to find any later mention of the stoup or fontlet, unless it is the little one now mounted on a pedestal and kept inside the church].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.663604, -1.588913
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 39′ 48.97″ N, 1° 35′ 20.09″ W
UTM: 30U 595430 5835785
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2014-12-09 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908