Great Glen / Glen / Glen Magna / Glenn / Glenne
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Results: 4 records
view of church exterior - northeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/great-glen-church-st-cuthbert/] [accessed 12 August 2015]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Kelly, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 May 2014 Dave Kelly [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3978984] [accessed 12 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: pre-Conquest stones in the north aisle.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/great-glen-church-st-cuthbert/] [accessed 12 August 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
![the top of the modern font is partially visible towards the back [west], in the left [south] bank of benches [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150901033_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the top of the modern font is partially visible towards the back [west], in the left [south] bank of benches [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/great-glen-church-st-cuthbert/] [accessed 12 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12219GLE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Cuthbert
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Cuthbert [aka Cubertus]
Church Address: 34 Church Road, Great Glen, Leicestershire LE8 9FE, UK
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A6, just S of Great Stretton, 10 km SE of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Gartree
Additional Comments: abandoned font / disused font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for [Great] Glen in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP6597/great-glen/] [accessed 12 August 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Hill (1875) reports a round font here. The Victoria County History (Leicestershire, vol. 5, 1964) notes: "In 1140, Ralph Butler (pincerna) granted the church of Great Glen to Alcester Abbey (Warws.) [...] The modern vestry contains two carved stones thought to be of pre-Conquest date, one perhaps of the 8th century. [...] It was almost entirely rebuilt, with the exception of the tower, in 1876. [...] The circular font, for part of the 19th century abandoned in a neighbouring garden, [footnote: "H.L. Dodds, Sermon (delivered 1876), among par. recs."] is probably 12th century". There is no mentioin of a font in Pevsner (1984).
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 632945 5826623
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.573392, -1.03819
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 34′ 24.21″ N, 1° 2′ 17.48″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Hill, John Harwood, The History of Market Harborough, with that portion of the Hundred of Gartree, Leicestershire, containing the parishes of [...], Leicester: Printed for the subscribers [and not published] by Ward and Sons, 1875, p. 109