Lower Lemington / Limenstone / Limentone

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view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 Fedbruary 2017 by Philip Jeffrey [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5291933] [accessed 18 December 2018]

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view of church exterior - south view - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Lower Lemington church is dedicated to St Leonard, this small church is still in use even though there appears to be no village as such."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 August 2015 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4649318] [accessed 18 December 2018]

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view of church exterior in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 September 2006 by Jennifer Luther Thomas [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/247205] [accessed 17 July 2012]

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view of church interior - chancel arch and east side

Scene Description: Source caption: "The early Norman chancel arch is only 4ft wide and has small squints on either side. The Norman font which can be seen in the chancel [bottom-left corner of the image] was replaced by a very small Victorian font."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 January 2016 by Guy Thornton [www.flickr.com/photos/bwthornton/24163923463/in/photostream/] [accessed 18 December 2018]

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view of font

Scene Description: "Font. Early Norman, tub-shaped. It lies disused in the chancel" [Verey & Brooks (1999-2002)]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 31 January 2016 by Guy Thornton [www.flickr.com/photos/bwthornton/24423115579/in/photostream/] [accessed 18 December 2018]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10191LEM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard

Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard

Church Location: Lower Lemington, Gloucestershire, GL56 9NR, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Gloucestershire, South West

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A429, 4-5 km NE of Moreton-in-Marsh

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester

Historical Region: Hundred of Tewkesbury

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the old chancel arch

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman?

Cognate Fonts: the font at Bledington

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and new font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for [Lower] Lemington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP2134/lower-lemington/] [accessed 18 December 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 6, 1965) notes: "there appears to have been a church at Lower Lemington by the 11th century, and in the earlier 12th century the chapel of Lemington was confirmed to Tewkesbury Abbey. [...] The chancel arch is thought to be Saxon, [...] and the plan of the Saxon church, with some of its fabric, appears to have survived. [...] The large, tub-shaped, 12th-century font, similar to the one at Bledington, stood in the chancel in 1962, when it was not in use". In Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Early Norman, tub-shaped. It lies disused in the chancel, replaced by a small C19 octagonal stone font." The basin of the new baptismal font is octagonal with plain vertical sides chamfered at the upper and lower rims; it is raised on an octagonal pedestal base. Wooden font cover of octagonal pyramidal shape with finial.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.008505, -1.682352

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 0′ 30.62″ N, 1° 40′ 56.47″ W

UTM: 30U 590438 5762804

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: tub-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-10-27 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.