Repton / Hreopandunum / Repindon / Reppandene
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of church exterior in context
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view of church interior - crypt
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10062REP
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Wystan
Church Patron Saints: St. Wystan
Church Location: Willington Road, Repton, Derbyshire DE65 6FH
Country Name: England
Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 7 km N of Swadlincote, 7 km NE of Burton-upon-Trent, 11 km SSE of Derby, near the county border with Staffordshire
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Derby
Historical Region: Hundred of Repton and Gresley
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church Notes: The National Gazetteer of 1868 reports: "There are ruins of a nunnery founded prior to 660, and in which Ethelbald I. and other of the Mercian kings were interred." [transcribed by Colin Hinson [www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DBY/Repton/Gaz1868.html ] [accessed 4 May 2012]
Cox (1886) reports on the discovery on 16 December 1865: "The base stone of a font of Decorated date, pierced with drain, has been found. It is proposed to re-use it: designing a new one to fit the base. The church has at present nothing worthy of the name of a font." The present font is modern, of the 19th century: octagonal basin, panels carved with quatrefoils, charged shield, etc.; on cultered columns with foliated capitals and moulded bases. Wooden cover is octagonal and flat. [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the Decorated base noted in Cox above; it appears the plan to design a font including the discovered base were abandoned in favor of the present font, which looks like it would date from the time, the late-19th century].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.838,
-1.549
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 50′ 16.8″ N,
1° 32′ 56.4″ W
UTM: 30U 597738 5855236
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, "A Note on the Restoration of Repton Church", 8, January 1886, Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 1886, pp. 231-236; r["References"]
