Hungarton No. 1 / Hungretone

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design element - motifs - chevron - nested chevrons

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/hungarton-church-st-john-the-baptist/] [accessed 13 August 2015]

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design element - motifs - lozenge - concentric lozenges

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/hungarton-church-st-john-the-baptist/] [accessed 13 August 2015]

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design element - motifs - piping

Scene Description: at the corners of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/hungarton-church-st-john-the-baptist/] [accessed 13 August 2015]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/hungarton-church-st-john-the-baptist/] [accessed 13 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/hungarton-church-st-john-the-baptist/] [accessed 13 August 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/hungarton-church-st-john-the-baptist/] [accessed 13 August 2015]

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view of font - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 December 2011 by Kristin Allen [www.flickr.com/photos/kmarya/6502353813/] [accessed 13 August 2015]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Norman font with the corners taken off for some unknown reason." -- the round flat cover is hidden under the cloth on it

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/hungarton-church-st-john-the-baptist/] [accessed 13 August 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12230HUN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: Church Lane, Hungarton, Leicestershire LE7 9JX

Country Name: England

Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located 15 km ENE of Leicester

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester

Historical Region: Hundred of Goscote

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end

Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman

Cognate Fonts: similar decoration on the fonts at Peckleton and Rothley, also in Leics., and Gt. Casterton in nearby Rutland

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: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Hungarton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK6907/hungarton/] [accessed 13 August 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. An ancient font in this church is noted in Pevsner (1984): "Font. Norman, square, with concentric lozenges (cf. Rothley and Peckleton)" -- also Gt. Casterton in Rutland. Noted and illustrated in Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/hungarton-church-st-john-the-baptist/] [accessed 13 August 2015]: "The Norman font with its square design and lozenge carving looks like a cut-down version and the corners have been taken off for some obscure reason."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.659029, -0.979834

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 39′ 32.5″ N, 0° 58′ 47.4″ W

UTM: 30U 636632 5836257

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: square

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: round, flat and plain

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984