Arnesby / Arnsby / Erendesberie / Erendesby
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 April 2012 by Ian Rob [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2919758] [accessed 24 July 2015]
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view of church exterior - portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Chris Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/arnesby-church-st-peter/] [accessed 24 July 2015]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Chris Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/arnesby-church-st-peter/] [accessed 24 July 2015]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © jmc4, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 October 2006 by jmc4 [www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/6993274145/] [accessed 24 July 2015]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06966ARN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Church Lane, Arnesby, Leicestershire, LE8 5WJ
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 12 km S of Leicester, just W of the A50
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Guthlaxton [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Arnesby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP6192/arnesby/] [accessed 24 July 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. A baptismal font here is noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Norman period. The font consists of a a bucket-shaped basin with a broad flat moulding at the top, on a circular base chamfered at the top end. Pyramidal wooden font cover; Victorian.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 629432 5821033
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.524013, -1.092183
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 31′ 26.45″ N, 1° 5′ 31.86″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th century?
Material: wood, oak?
Notes: pyramidal; Victorian
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 206
- Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818, [vol. IV, part I, p. 524-525 and pl. xi / [http://books.google.com/books?id=gLwuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA228&lpg=PA228&dq=upcott+1818&source=web&ots=lJwT-K00zU&sig=oVT6Kc6G03vqjYf4Synuk_Aek9w#PPP15,M1] [accessed 30 September 2007]