Thorpe Langton / Torp
Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
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Results: 10 records
view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
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
design element - motifs - quatrefoil - cusped - in a rhomboid - 8
design element - motifs - moulding - parallel
design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Scene Description: around the upper part of the underbowl, above the concave chamfer
design element - motifs - trefoil
Scene Description: in both upper and lower spandrels around the basin
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 - spur - 8
Scene Description: spur-like motifs in low relief around the octagonal lower base
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12189THO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Chapel of St. Leonard
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Leonard
Church Address: Welham Road, Thorpe Langton, Leicestershire LE16 7TR, United Kingdom
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the chapel/church of ca.1162 here)
Font Notes:
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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."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 641759 5821444
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.524637, -0.910431
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 31′ 28.69″ N, 0° 54′ 37.55″ W
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-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984, p. 406