Repton / Hreopandunum / Repindon / Reppandene
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view of church exterior in context
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of church interior - crypt
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Image Source: engraving from a drawing by Orlando Jewitt in Bloxam (1841)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 10062REP
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Wystan
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Wystan
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]
Church Address: Willington Road, Repton, Derbyshire DE65 6FH
Site Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original church here?) -- buried font? (Decorated period) -- view modern font: http://www.flickr.com/photos/47891565@N00/331705045/ [accesed 4 May 2012]
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 30U 597738 5855236
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.838, -1.549
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 50′ 16.8″ N, 1° 32′ 56.4″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
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; p. 231