Saddington / Sadington / Setintone
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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
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
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12416SAD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Helen
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, N aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Helena
Church Notes: main entrance to this church is through the north porch and portal
Church Address: Main Street, Saddington, Leicestershire LE8 0RH, UK
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: altered font? (the chamfered base is modern, Victorian) -- disappeared font? (the one from the ca. 1177 church here)
Font Notes:
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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."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 633547 5820710
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.520117, -1.03169
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 31′ 12.42″ N, 1° 1′ 54.08″ W
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-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984, p. 366
- Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818, [vol. II, part II, p. 506] and pl. cxxvi [on the letter-press] / [http://books.google.com/books?id=gLwuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA228&lpg=PA228&dq=upcott+1818&source=web&ots=lJwT-K00zU&sig=oVT6Kc6G03vqjYf4Synuk_Aek9w#PPP15,M1] [accessed 23 September 2007]