Cold Overton / Ovretone
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 September 2017 by Andrew Tatlow [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3349682] [accessed 12 December 2019]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12191OVE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Address: Main St, Cold Overton, Oakham LE15 7QA, UK -- Tel.: +44 116 2597244
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A606, 5 km WNW of Oakham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Framland
Additional Comments: disappeared font(s)? [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for [Cold] Overtone [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK8110/cold-overton/] [accessed 12 December 2019]; it reports a priest, but not a church in it, though there must have been one there. Pesvner (1984) notes: "Font. A stone baluster said, in 1842, to be new." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK8102410152] notes: "Parish church. C13, C14, C15, and c.1800. Restored by J. T. Micklethwaite, 1889. [...] Fluted font on baluster stem,1842." [NB: the fabric of the church goes back to the Early English period, but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 648530 5839268
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.68295, -0.8027
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 40′ 58.62″ N, 0° 48′ 9.72″ W
REFERENCES
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984, p. 133