Saddington / Sadington / Setintone
Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: NB: the main access to this church is via the north porch and portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/saddington-st-helens/] [accessed 24 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/saddington-st-helens/] [accessed 24 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/saddington-st-helens/] [accessed 24 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/saddington-st-helens/] [accessed 24 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 12416SAD
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Helen
Church Patron Saints: St. Helena
Church Location: Main Street, Saddington, Leicestershire LE8 0RH
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 10 km NW of Market Harborough, 16 km SE of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Gartree
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, N aisle
Century and Period: 14th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: main entrance to this church is through the north porch and portal
There is an entry for Saddington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP6591/saddington/] [accessed 24 August 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font here is noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). The Victoria County History (Leicestershire, vol. 5, 1964) reports "The advowson of the church of Saddington was given to the abbey of St. Agatha, Easby (Yorks.), by Richard de Rollos II. The gift, which was confirmed by Pope Celestin III before 1191, was probably made after 1177 [...] With the exception of the tower and nave arcades the whole of the church was virtually rebuilt in 1872-3. Internally the earliest surviving feature is the 13th-century south arcade [...] The present north doorway is also of 13th-century date [...] Fourteenth-century work includes the three lower stages of the unbuttressed tower, the polygonal font set on an octagonal broach-stopped base in the north aisle, and the trefoil-arched piscina in the chancel." Noted in Pevsner (1984): "Font. Plain bowl with twelve faces."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.520117,
-1.03169
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 31′ 12.42″ N,
1° 1′ 54.08″ W
UTM: 30U 633547 5820710
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: dodecagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: dodecagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: dodecagonal, plain and flat, with metal ring handle
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2006-12-18 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
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
