Fleckney / Flechenie / Flechenio
Image copyright © Anthony Dickens, 2009
No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
Results: 6 records
view of basin
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anthony Dickens, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph posted 16 February 2009 by Anthony Dickens [www.leicestershirevillages.com/fleckney/stgeorgesdaycelebration,403167.htm] [accessed 11 August 2015]
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view of church exterior - south portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "The fine Norman doorway moved and rebuilt during the Victorian building work."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/fleckney-church-st-nicholas/] [accessed 11 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: N/A
MOD FONT OK digital photograph posted 16 February 2009 by Anthony Dickens [www.leicestershirevillages.com/fleckney/stgeorgesdaycelebration,403167.htm] [accessed 11 August 2015]
MOD FONT NO PERMIT digital photograph taken 13 October 2006 by jmc4 [www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/6944412781/] [accessed 11 August 2015]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mat Fascione, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 March 2008 by Mat Fascione [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/736870] [accessed 11 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/fleckney-church-st-nicholas/] [accessed 11 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/fleckney-church-st-nicholas/] [accessed 11 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © jmc4, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 October 2006 by jmc4 [www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/6944412781/] [accessed 11 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12201FLE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: Main Street, Fleckney, Leicestershire, LE8 8AP, UK
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 11 km N of Market Harborough, 13 km SE of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Gartree [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: abandoned font / disused font / unused font / disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Fleckney [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP6493/fleckney/] [accessed 11 August 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. A font here is noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). The Victoria County History (Leicestershire, vol. 5, 1964) notes: "Fleckney church was originally a chapel of Wistow. The fabric of the building [...] indicates that a chapel existed in the 12th century. In 1220 Fleckney was one of 3 chapels dependent on Wistow, but it had a resident chaplain and unlike the other 2 chapels it had all the rights of the mother church. [...] it seems probable that the fabric of the original church, although much restored, has survived from the 12th century. The principal features of the nave are the 12th-century north and south doorways, both round-headed. The north doorway has an arch of two chamfered orders resting on moulded imposts. The hoodmould with much-decayed head-stops may be a later addition. The south doorway, which has been rebuilt, is larger and has attached shafts with scalloped capitals. Both arch and jambs are enriched with chevron ornament. [...] In 1798 the font (perhaps installed in 1777) [...] was described as a small leaden bowl on a stone pedestal, having a wooden cover. An older font, probably medieval, had been discarded and was lying in the churchyard." The VCH footnotes this font info to: 'Nichols, Leics. ii, 876, and plate cxxxix. Neither of these fonts are reported in Pevsner (1984)
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 632655 5822373
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.5350, -1.0469
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Nichols, John, History and antiquities of the town and County of Leicester, London: John Nichols & Son, 1795-1811, vol. 2: p. 876 and pl. cxxxix
- Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818, [vol. II, part II, p. 507] and pl. cxxxix [on the letter-press] / [http://books.google.com/books?id=gLwuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA228&lpg=PA228&dq=upcott+1818&source=web&ots=lJwT-K00zU&sig=oVT6Kc6G03vqjYf4Synuk_Aek9w#PPP15,M1] [accessed 23 September 2007]