Fleckney / Flechenie [Domesday] / Flechenio

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view of basin

Scene Description: the modern font

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."

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/fleckney-church-st-nicholas/] [accessed 11 August 2015]

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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]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 March 2008 by Mat Fascione [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/736870] [accessed 11 August 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/fleckney-church-st-nicholas/] [accessed 11 August 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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view of font

Scene Description: the modern font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 October 2006 by jmc4 [www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/6944412781/] [accessed 11 August 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12201FLE

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: Main Street, Fleckney, Leicestershire, LE8 8AP

Country Name: England

Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands

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

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: , Medieval

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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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.5350, -1.0469

UTM: 30U 632655 5822373

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2006-09-21 00:00:00. 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

Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818