Witherley
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design element - patterns - tracery
view of church exterior in context - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Witherley Church. Situated by the side of the River Anker. This river is the Warwickshire / Leicestershire boundary here, so the church is just in Leicestershire, along with the village of Witherley."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andy & Hilary, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2005 by Andy & Hilary [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7832] [accessed 8 November 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 12439WIT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Church Rd, Witherley, Atherstone CV9 3NA , UK -- Tel.: +44 1455 213988
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (SW) the A5-B4111 crossroads, 2 km E of Atherstone, 10 km W of Market Bosworth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes:
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No individual entry fornd for Witherley in the Domesday survey. Pevsner (1984) notes: "Font. Octagonal. Perp[endicular], with panel tracery." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SP3251697339] notes: "Parish Church. Early C14, with a C15 west tower and a chancel of 1858 [...] C15 octagonal stone font with trefoil-headed arcading to the sides of the basin of the same type as that on the parapet of the tower." The entry for this church in Atherstone Forum [http://atherstoneforum.proboards.com/thread/485/witherley] [accessed 8 October 2019] notes: "The font is 14th Century, once painted by a too zealous churchwarden."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.574, -1.52
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 34′ N, 1° 31′ W
UTM: 30U 600295 5825912
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984