Staunton Harold / Stantone

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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/staunton-harold-holy-trinity/] [accessed 26 August 2015]

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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/staunton-harold-holy-trinity/] [accessed 26 August 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/staunton-harold-holy-trinity/] [accessed 26 August 2015]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Pevsner [cf. FontNotes] notes that this church was built in 1653, in the midst of the Commonwealth; the cover is a little later, 1665

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Blosslyn, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph 12 August 2013 in Blosslyn's Fotorama [https://blosslynspage.wordpress.com/2013/08/12/the-font-at-staunton-harold-hall-church/] [accessed 26 August 2015]

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view of font and cover in context

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Image Source: digital photograph 12 August 2013 in Blosslyn's Fotorama [https://blosslynspage.wordpress.com/2013/08/12/the-font-at-staunton-harold-hall-church/] [accessed 26 August 2015]

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view of font cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Font cover. William Smith (of Chichester) (Guildford 1707 – Chichester 1764) [...] oak [...] 1665"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Midgelow, 2015

Image Source: photograph by David Midgelow in the National Trust [www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/426806] [accessed 26 August 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12427STA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity
Church Location: Staunton Harold, Ashby de la Zouch, Leics. LE65 1RW
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B587, NNE of Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Goscote
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SW corner
Date: ca. 1653?
Century and Period: 17th century(mid?), Restoration
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church
There is an entry for Staunton [Harold] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK3720/staunton-harold/] [accessed 26 August 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Pevsner (1984) writes: "In the SW corner is the completely plain font with its not very spectacular font cover". [NB: Pevsner notes that this church was built in 1653, in the midst of the Commonwealth]. The oak font cover is dated to 1665 in the National Trust [www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/426806] [accessed 26 August 2015].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.783447, -1.438038
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 47′ 0.41″ N, 1° 26′ 16.94″ W
UTM: 30U 605344 5849325

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1665
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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