Stretton-en-le-Field / Stretten-en-le-Fields / Stretone / Stretun
Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Chris Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/stretton-en-le-field-church-st-michael/] [accessed 20 July 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 Chris Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/stretton-en-le-field-church-st-michael/] [accessed 20 July 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Chris Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/stretton-en-le-field-church-st-michael/] [accessed 20 July 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 12432STR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: Rectory Lane, Streeton en le Field, Leics. DE12 8AF
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located near Measham, 8 km SE of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 14-15 km NE of Tamworth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Goscote [also Walecross, both in Domesday] -- Hundred of Repton and Gresley -- formerly in Derbyshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1662?
Century and Period: 17th century(mid?), Stuart
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church
Church Notes: church originally 14thC; now in the care of he Redundant Churches Fund
There is an entry for this Stretton [-en-le-Field] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK3012/stretton-en-le-field/] [accessed 20 July 2015], under Leicestershire, but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. There is another entry for another part of the same name under Derbyshire [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK3011/stretton-en-le-field/] [accessed 20 July 2015], also without a mention of priest or church in it. Kelly's Directory of 1891 states: "the octagonal font dates from c. 1662". Noted in Pevsner (1984) [after Cox?]: "Font. Dated convincingly by Cox c. 1662". Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/stretton-en-le-field-church-st-michael/] [accessed 20 July 2015] notes: "The octagonal font with tapering bowl is dated to around 1660 whilst the cover is a memorial to a vicar who died in 1927. "
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.703834,
-1.551833
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 42′ 13.8″ N,
1° 33′ 6.6″ W
UTM: 30U 597848 5840309
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: ca. 1927 / modern
Material:
wood,
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Kelly, Kelly's Directory of the counties of Derby, Notts., Leicester and Rutland, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1891
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984
