Thorpe Langton / Torp

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Scene Description: around the upper part of the underbowl, above the concave chamfer

design element - motifs - moulding - parallel

design element - motifs - quatrefoil - cusped - in a rhomboid - 8

design element - motifs - spur - 8

Scene Description: spur-like motifs in low relief around the octagonal lower base

design element - motifs - tracery - varied

Scene Description: some of them similar to the pattern on the basin sides, others window tracery, etc.

design element - motifs - trefoil

Scene Description: in both upper and lower spandrels around the basin

view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/thorpe-langton-st-leonard/] [accessed 27 August 2015]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/thorpe-langton-st-leonard/] [accessed 27 August 2015]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/thorpe-langton-st-leonard/] [accessed 27 August 2015]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

INFORMATION

FontID: 12189THO

Church/Chapel: Chapel of St. Leonard

Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard

Church Location: Welham Road, Thorpe Langton, Leicestershire LE16 7TR, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located in the wider civil parish of Church Langton, near Great Bowden, 7 km N of Market Harborough

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester

Historical Region: Hundred of Gartree

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for Thorpe [Langton] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP7492/thorpe-langton/] [accessed 27 August 2015], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Leicestershire, vol. 5, 1964) notes: "The chapel at Thorpe Langton was granted to Leicester Abbey, with the mother church at Church Langton, at some date during the 12th century, probably before 1162. [...] The rubble walling of a 13th-century building is visible in the spandrels of the south arcade, at the western ends of both arcades against the tower, and possibly in the bases of the arcade piers. Four reset corbels in the south aisle are of c. 1200. The tower, of three stages surmounted by a small broach spire, was built later in the 13th century. [...] The building was restored in 1867 [...] The octagonal Perpendicular font is of the late 15th century. The bowl and shaft are enriched with foliage and traceried panels". Noted in Pevsner (1984): "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal, with tracery motifs on shaft and bowl. It stands on two steps."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.524637, -0.910431

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 31′ 28.69″ N, 0° 54′ 37.55″ W

UTM: 30U 641759 5821444

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: round, flat and plain

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2006-09-20 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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