Arnesby / Arnsby / Erendesberie / Erendesby

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view of church exterior - northwest view

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view of church exterior - portal

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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view of font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06966ARN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Church Lane, Arnesby, Leicestershire, LE8 5WJ
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
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 Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.524013, -1.092183
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 31′ 26.45″ N, 1° 5′ 31.86″ W
UTM: 30U 629432 5821033

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
Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818