Leicester No. 7 / Ledecestre

INFORMATION

FontID: 12239LEI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Matthew [originally from Little Dalby Parish Church of St James]
Church Patron Saints: St. Matthew
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: St Matthew's is on Montreal Rd, in the NE suburbs of Leicester -- Little Dalby is 6 km SE of Melton Mowbray
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: , Medieval
A font at the church of Little Dalby is noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818) [which probably means the font was moved to Leicester St. Matthew's after that date]. Noted in Pevsner (1984): "Font. Medieval, from Little Dalby."

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984
Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818