Hungarton No. 2 / Hungretone

INFORMATION

FontID: 12231HUN

Object Type: Stoup

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: Outside the church, to the E of the porch doorway

Century and Period: Medieval

Font Notes: Click to view

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

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

REFERENCES

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