Leake / Lec / Lece / Leche / Lege / Lek

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design element - motifs - roll moulding - graded

Image Source: digital photograph 2012 by William Metcalfe [www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/images/buildings/en/332/332170-50878-800.jpg] [accessed 3 April 2016]

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view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2013 by Bill Boaden [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3645251] [accessed 3 April 2016]

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view of church exterior - south wall

Scene Description: a lion, most likely -- near the south entranceway

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2007 by Antonia [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/953286] [accessed 3 April 2016]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 October 2014 by Peter Wood [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4209732] [accessed 3 April 2016]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: drawing done by Robert Wilkes in 2016

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - west tower - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Norman Tower at Leake. The C11th tower is the oldest part of Leake church."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 March 2008 by Matthew Hatton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/734316] [accessed 3 April 2016]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: notice the lower half of the semt and the lower base, both modern replacements

Image Source: digital photograph 2012 by William Metcalfe [www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/images/buildings/en/332/332170-50878-800.jpg] [accessed 3 April 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11074LEA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: A19, Leake, Thirsk YO7 4BN, UK

Country Name: England

Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A19, 10 km ESE of Northallerton

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Thirsk

Historical Region: Hundred of Allerton

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

Century and Period: , Medieval [altered]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Robert Wilkes for his drawing of this church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries [one is multiple-place] for this Leake [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE4390/leake/] [accessed 3 April 2016], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 1, 1914) notes: "Early in the 12th century a church stood on this site consisting of the present west tower, a nave and a small chancel"; the only font in this church mentioned in the VCH entry is "a pewter font basin". Morris (1931) notes a "17th-cent. font-cover". So does Pevsner (1985): "An uncommonly substantial piece of the C17, heavily moulded. An acorn on the top." No mention is made of the font, which consists of a round basin with two (?) large roll mouldings as all ornamentation; the circular stem is plain; the lower end of the stem and the lower base are a modern replacement. The font appears old, probably medieval, and has had at least one repair of inserted stone; it has also been drastically re-tooled. The stone looks like a fine sandstone. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE4331490632] notes: "Church C12, C13, C14 and C15. [...] Font cover, C17, heavily-moulded with acorn finial." [NB: we have no information on the earlier font of this church which may go as far back as Anglo-Saxon times]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.30825, -1.33295

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 18′ 29.7″ N, 1° 19′ 58.62″ W

UTM: 30U 608461 6019100

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone?

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th century?

Material: wood, oak?

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-11-28 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Morris, Joseph Ernest, The North Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1931

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the North Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1985 c1966