Uppingham / Oppingeham / Uppyngham

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view of basin

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 16 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: EXT SE digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/uppingham-st-peter-st-paul/] [accessed 15 July 2015] INT NW digital photograph taken by Chris Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/uppingham-st-peter-st-paul/] [accessed 15 July 2015] INT E digital photograph taken by Chris Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/uppingham-st-peter-st-paul/] [accessed 15 July 2015]

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/uppingham-st-peter-st-paul/] [accessed 15 July 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/uppingham-st-peter-st-paul/] [accessed 15 July 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking northwest

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/uppingham-st-peter-st-paul/] [accessed 15 July 2015]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06355UPP

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul

Church Location: Market Place, Uppingham, Rutland. LE15 9QH

Country Name: England

Location: Rutland, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located just below the junction of the A47 with the A6003, 11-12 km N of Corby

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough

Historical Region: Hundred of Martinsley

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 12th - 14th century [basin only] [re-cut?], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice Tostevin for her photographs of this font. We are also grateful to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire & Rutland Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk] & [www.rutlandchurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No entry found for Uppingham in the Domesday survey. A font here is noted in Glynne (1829) [cf. infra]. Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as the surviving basin of an old baptismal font from this church. The Victoria County History (Rutland, vol. 2, 1935) notes: "Except where modern, the building is of 14thcentury date, but during an extensive restoration and enlargement in 1860–1 four sculptured fragments of the 12th century were found [...] The font now in use is of serpentine marble and dates from 1861. The bowl of the old font [...] described by Sir Stephen Glynne in 1829 as 'a large plain octagon,' is under the tower; it has a moulded lower edge, and may be older than the 14th-century rebuilding." There is no mention of this object in Pevsner's Rutland guide (1984), where he notes only the 1853 Early-English-design font "brought from Cottesbrooke, Northants" [NB: this latter font not listed in this Index on account of its late date]. Pevsner & Cherry (1973), however, in their Northamptonshire guide, write: "The new and unremarkable font designed by Street and made in 1853 is now in Uppingham parish church". The old basin is now [June 2010] an irregular polygon raised on a modern square pedestal base with chamfered corners [was it a square basin originally?]; the basin well is round and lead-lined; this must be the one described in the VCH above as perhaps earlier than the 14th century.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.587306, -0.722153

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 35′ 14.3″ N, 0° 43′ 19.75″ W

UTM: 30U 654310 5828800

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: [base missing]

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-07-03 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928