Long Whatton / Watone
Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
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design element - motifs - diaper or nail-head? - in a square
Scene Description: a pattern made of three rows of it, all around the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 21 February 1990 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: photograph taken 21 February 1990 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 21 February 1990 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Geoff Pick, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 May 2003 by Geoff Pick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/121150] [accessed 4 March 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: photograph taken 21 February 1990 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
INFORMATION
FontID: 12257WHA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Mill Lane, Long Whatton, Leicestershire LE12 5DR
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located just below the junction M1-A6, near the county border with Nottinghamshire, 8 km NNW of Loughborough, 28 km NW of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Goscote
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Timothy Marlow for his photograph of this font
Church Notes: church restored and partially rebuilt 1866
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). English Heritage [Listing NGR: SK4823623320] (1962) reports: restored circular C12 font with frieze of diagonally crossed squares, in baptistery surrounded by traceried wooden screens of 1929." Described in Pevsner (1984): "Font. Norman, circular, drum-shaped, with three bands of saltire crosses." The font appears to have been re-tooled [was it also re-mounted?]. The tall wooden cover was probably added in the 1866 restoration and re-building of this church.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.8053, -1.286
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 48′ 19.08″ N, 1° 17′ 9.6″ W
UTM: 30U 615539 5851989
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern? / ca. 1866?
Material: wood, oak?
Notes: tall wooden spire of open-work with buttresses, sculptures, pinnacles, etc.; appears modern, probably of the 1866 restoration
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