Dadlington
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 April 2015 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4470635] [accessed 26 August 2015]
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view of font
Scene Description: the modern font [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 April 2015 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4470648] [accessed 26 August 2015]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11471DAD
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James the Greater
Church Patron Saints: St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Church Location: 1 The Green, Dadlington, Sutton Cheney, Leicestershire CV13 6JD
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the A447, just N of Barwell, about 15 km SW of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Church Notes: chapelry in Hinckley parish; church orig. 13thC
No entry for Dadlington found in the Domesday survey. A font here is listed in Gough (1792) and in Paley (1844) as a hexagonal font. [NB: Paley lists a hexagonal font in Dadlington, Suffolk, but the only Dadlington we found belongs in Leicestershire]. The present font in this church is modern; it consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides, one of which has Greek cross carved in it, and a moulded and foliated underbowl; raised on a single marble column, around moulded lower base and an odd lower base or plinth; the whole thing is ungainly, but the base is just downright ugly. [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the hexagonal font noted above].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.582808,
-1.40371
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 34′ 58.11″ N,
1° 24′ 13.36″ W
UTM: 30U 608154 5827060
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: hexagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal
REFERENCES
Lucot, P., "L'ancienne cuve de la cathédrale de Châlons-sur-Marne", 1901-1902, Mémoires de la Société d'agriculture, commerce, sciences et arts du Département de la Marne, 1901-1902, pp. 65-71; r["References"]
Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844
