Glooston / Glorstone
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/glooston-st-john-the-baptist/] [accessed 12 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/glooston-st-john-the-baptist/] [accessed 12 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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/glooston-st-john-the-baptist/] [accessed 12 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: at the west end of the nave, by the south doorway
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/glooston-st-john-the-baptist/] [accessed 12 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 12216GLO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Andrew's Lane, Glooston, Leicestershire LE16 7ST
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 10 km N of Market Harborough, 17-18 SE of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, by the S entranceway
Date: ca. 1300?
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church and font
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Glooston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP7595/glooston/] [accessed 12 August 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Leicestershire, vol. 5, 1964) notes: "The earliest mention of Glooston church is about 1220, but it was probably founded in the 12th century. It may, like Cranoe, have been a chapelry of Welham, where burials still took place about 1220, although in other respects Glooston was independent. [...] The church was almost entirely rebuilt by the architect Joseph Goddard of Leicester in 1866–7 [...] The plain octagonal font may date from the 14th century". In Pevsner (1984): "Font. Plain, octagonal. Probably c. 1300".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.554897, -0.896702
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 33′ 17.63″ N, 0° 53′ 48.13″ W
UTM: 30U 642592 5824837
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal pyramid with carved side panels; foliated cross finial
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2006-09-25 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984