Letton nr. Hereford / Letune

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view of church exterior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 July 2012 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3057794] [accessed 26 March 2014]

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view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, Volume 3, North West (London, 1934), p. 146 'Plate 146: Letton Church, S. Doorway', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, Volume 3, North West (London, 1934), p. 146 [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/heref/vol3/plate-146 [accessed 28 December 2018]

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view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital photograph by Ron Baxter taken 5 May 2005 [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1707/] [accessed 28 December 2018]

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view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph by Ron Baxter taken 5 May 2005 [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1707/] [accessed 28 December 2018]

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view of church exterior - south portal - lintel

"As already noted by Keyser(31), the geometric decoration of the Letton lintel is similar to the works at Bredwardine (q.v.) and Willersley (q.v.) and he was undoubtedly right when he wrote "it is more than probable that all three were executed by the same man"" [CRSBI (2018) [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1707/] [accessed 28 December 2018]]

Scene Description: "As already noted by Keyser(31), the geometric decoration of the Letton lintel is similar to the works at Bredwardine (q.v.) and Willersley (q.v.) and he was undoubtedly right when he wrote "it is more than probable that all three were executed by the same man"" [CRSBI (2018) [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1707/] [accessed 28 December 2018]]

Image Source: digital photograph by Ron Baxter taken 5 May 2005 [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1707/] [accessed 28 December 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 September 2013 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3667099] [accessed 26 March 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 September 2013 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3666854] [accessed 26 March 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09755LET

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist [redundant]

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: Letton, Herefordshire, HR3 6DH

Country Name: England

Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off the A438, 11 km SSE of Kington, 20 km W of Hereford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford

Historical Region: Hundred of Elsdon [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Stretford

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 13th century, Early English

Church Notes: redundant church; in the care of The Historic Churches Preservation Trust

Font Notes: Click to view

There is an entry for this Letton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SO3346/letton/] [accessed 28 December 2018]; it mentions a priet, but not a church, in it, though there must have been one there. The inventory of Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. III: 134) notes: "Font: octagonal bowl, with moulded and splayed under side, octagonal to square stem and plain round base, probably 13th-century." This church is noted in Gethyn-Jones (1979) as one of three (Bredwardine and Willersley are the others) sort-of-precursors of The Dymock School of Romanesque Sculpture.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.112358, -2.972505

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 6′ 44.49″ N, 2° 58′ 21.02″ W

UTM: 30U 501883 5773535

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: three?

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2018-12-28 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1931-1934