Burton Overy / Burtone
Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
Results: 5 records
design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 March 2012 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph by Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/burton-overy-st-andrew/] [accessed 4 March 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: with the ornate chancel screen
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph by Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/burton-overy-st-andrew/] [accessed 4 March 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Scene Description: notice the reddish lines on the upper basin sides; they show where the repairs were made
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 March 2012 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: at the west end of the nave, beneath the tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 March 2012 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
INFORMATION
FontID: 12186BUR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Main Street, Burton Overy, Leicestershire LE8 9DL
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A6, just E of Great Glen, ESE of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Gartree [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, beneath the tower
Century and Period: 13th century, Transitional / Early English
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk[, and to Timothy Marlow for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: the lack of mention of an early church here in the Domesday survey does not necessarily mean there was not one; if Grandmesnil donated it in his lifetime, the church must have existed prior to his death in 1098.
There is an entry for Burton [Overy] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP6798/burton-overy/] [accessed 4 March 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Leicestershire, vol. 5, 1964) notes: "In 1204 the church of Burton Overy belonged to the Norman monastery of St. Evroul (Orne), which may originally have obtained it from Hugh de Grentemesnil [i.e., Grandmesnil / Grentmesnil, 1032-1098], one of the monastery's founders. [...] The tower dates from the late 13th and early 14th centuries [...] The tapered circular font probably dates from the 13th century." No mention of it in Pevsner (1984). In Stephens (2000): "When the Normans arrived, they took over the church building they found there, and installed the tapered circular font which dates back to the 13th century. Fittingly, it still stands at the foot of the tower" [...] The heavy oak font cover [...] bears the inscription 'LW Foster, Rector, made me, 1960'. The wrought iron handle came from a previous vicarage gate" [source: www.burtonovery.info/pdf/AspectsofBurtonOvery.pdf] [accessed 20 September 2006]. The only ornamentation on the font is a thick roll moulding at the upper rim; this area shows clear traces of significant damage and later repair with new stone inserts.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.578297,
-1.000894
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 34′ 41.87″ N,
1° 0′ 3.22″ W
UTM: 30U 635457 5827238
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1960
Material:
wood,
oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2006-09-20 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Stephens, Joan, Aspects of Burton Overy, Market Harborough, Leics.: Troubadour Publishing, 2000
