Hungarton No. 2 / Hungretone
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12231HUN
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: Outside the church, to the E of the porch doorway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Address: Church Lane, Hungarton, Leicestershire LE7 9JX, UK
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A47, 15 km ENE of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Goscote
Font Notes:
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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 undated holy-water stoup is noted in Pevsner (1984): "Stoup with canopy to the East of the porch doorway."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 636632 5836257
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.659029, -0.979834
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 39′ 32.5″ N, 0° 58′ 47.4″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984, p. 182