Ashby-de-la-Zouch / Ascebi / Asby de la Zouch

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view of basin

Scene Description: the new font

Image Source: detail of a digtal photograph by Colin Hyde [www.le.ac.uk/emoha]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 February 2011 by Peter Broster [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Helens_(8062003931).jpg] [accessed 24 July 2015]

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view of church exterior in context - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ashby-de-la-Zouch: St. Helen’s church from the castle. Looking from the top of the castle tower, across other castle buildings towards the parish church of St. Helen. Also prominent is Manor House School, an independent school housed in a Victorian manor house."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 April 2013 by Chris Downer [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3454202] [accessed 24 July 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2011 by Andrewrabbott [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_nave,_St_Helen's_Church,_Ashby-de-la-Zouch.jpg] [accessed 24 July 2015]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the new font

Image Source: digtal photograph by Colin Hyde [www.le.ac.uk/emoha]

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view of font cover

Scene Description: on the new font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12179LEI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Helen

Church Patron Saints: St. Helena

Church Location: Lower Church St, Ashby-de-la-Zouch LE65 1AA, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1530 414404

Country Name: England

Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located at the crossroads A42-A50, 25 km WNW of Leicester

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester

Historical Region: Hundred of Goscote

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hyde, of the East Midlands Oral History Archive [www.le.ac.uk/emoha], and to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk], for their photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: church here in 1086; present church 15thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Ashby [-de-la-Zouch] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK3616/ashby-de-la-zouch/] [accessed 24 July 2015]; ir mentions a priest, but not a church, in it, though there probably was one in it. Upcott (1818) notes and illustrates a font [image not available at present] which was probably the earlier font in this church [cf. infra]. Noted in Pevsner (1984) as a "lavish alabaster" baptismal font by Earp [i.e., Thomas Earp (1828-1893) noted sculptor of Victorian England], dating from 1878-1880. [NB: Pevsner does not record any other font in this church]. Chris Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/ashby-de-la-zouch-st-helen/] [accessed 24 July 2015] notes: "The pulpit and font also date to the Victorian restoration although there is also an earlier font within the church." The Earp font [cf. supra] is located at the west end of the nave, by the tower arch; the other font, also modern, is located in the south aisle, in the southwest corner.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.7475, -1.459833

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 44′ 51″ N, 1° 27′ 35.4″ W

UTM: 30U 603960 5845295

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984

Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818