Lockington / Lockington cum Hemington

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 11506LOC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: 1 Church Street, Lockington, Leicestershire DE74 2TF
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located just E of Castle Donington, W of the M1/A453, E of Hemington; Hemington itself is about 15 km SE of Derby
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Font Notes:
Early baptismal font noted in Gough (1792): "round, with a a fascia of interlaced arches, on a round shaft and sloping base." Pevsner (1984) notes two fonts: "One Norman, circular, with a narrow band of intersected arches at the top. The other alabaster, late Georgian, of baluster shape" [NB: the Georgian font not listed in this Index on account of its late date] -- [NB: Lewis (1848) notes of nearby Hemington: "Hemington was anciently a separate parish, and had a church, of which there are still large remains, partly converted into two dwellings, adjoining the ruins of the tower"; it is quite likely the old church would have had a baptismal font, but we have no information on it -- cf. Index entry for Hemington (Leics.)]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.8469, -1.3065

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; p. 189
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984