Scraptoft No. 2 / Scrapentot

INFORMATION

FontID: 11006SCR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Church Hill, Scraptoft, Leicestershire LE7 9TD
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located in the ESE outskirts of Leicester, 7 km from the city centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Gartree
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 18th century, Georgian
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Phipps of Leicester
There is an entry for Scraptoft [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK6405/scraptoft/] [accessed 9 September 2015] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The corresponding entry for Scraptoft in the Victoria County History ( Leicestershire, vol. 5, 1964) reads: "In the 18th century [...] a new font was made by a Mr. Phipps of Leicester[...] The 13th-century font had lain in the churchyard and later been used as a waste bin [...] before being restored to the church in the 19th century. It has a plain round bowl on a cylindrical stem to wjcih are attached four shafts with moulded capitals and bases." Pevsner (1984) writes: "Font. Plain, E[arly] E[nglish], on a circular core with four shafts. It was returned to the church in 1842 after lying outside and displaced an C18 baluster font." [cf. Index entry for Scraptoft No. 1 for the 13th-century font in this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.643921, -1.044034
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 38′ 38.12″ N, 1° 2′ 38.52″ W
UTM: 30U 632336 5834457

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2005-09-22 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984