Thurcaston / Thurchitelestone

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 11525THU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints, Thurcaston
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17534183
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: 52-64 Anstey Ln, Thurcaston, Leicester LE7 7JA, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 116 236 2176
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A46, 6-7 km N of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Goscote [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Thuscaston [variant spelling] in the Domesday syrvey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK5610/thurcaston/] [accessed 22 June 2025]; it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Gough (1792) writes: "The font at which the venerable Latimer officiated at Thurcaston is circular and shallow on a hexagon base with niches". [NB: the reference is to Hugh Latimer [1485-1555], bishop of Worcester, burned at the stake as a heretic under Queen Mary I; he is believed to have been born in this village]. Noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). A brief contribution by "W.S." in the Leicestershire and Rutland Notes and Queries and Antiquarian [...], (vol. 1, 1889-1891: 104) notes: "In this church is still preserved the font at which the reverend bishop was admitted a member of that church which he so eminently adorned. It is of a circular shape, on a hexagon base, with niches." Described in Pevsner (1984): "Font. Perp[endicular]. Unusual circular bowl with a protruding moulding above the octagonal panelled base" [NB: polygonal base but, how many sides?]

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. 195
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984, p. 408
  • Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818, [vol. III, part II, p. 521 and pl. cxxxvi and cxl / [http://books.google.com/books?id=gLwuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA228&lpg=PA228&dq=upcott+1818&source=web&ots=lJwT-K00zU&sig=oVT6Kc6G03vqjYf4Synuk_Aek9w#PPP15,M1] [accessed 30 September 2007]