Morcott / Morcot / Morcote / Moricote / Morkote

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/morcott-church-st-mary-the-virgin/] [accessed 21 July 2015]

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view of church interior - chancel and east end

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/morcott-church-st-mary-the-virgin/] [accessed 21 July 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - arcade - capital

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/morcott-church-st-mary-the-virgin/] [accessed 21 July 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/morcott-church-st-mary-the-virgin/] [accessed 21 July 2015]

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view of church interior - west end

Scene Description: the top of the font is visible in the left-hand corner, the west end of the south aisle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 November 2006 by Chris Stafford [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/344453] [accessed 21 July 2015]

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view of church interior - west end - looking north

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/morcott-church-st-mary-the-virgin/] [accessed 21 July 2015]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/morcott-church-st-mary-the-virgin/] [accessed 21 July 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12503MOR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: High Street, Morcott, Rutland LE15 9DH

Country Name: England

Location: Rutland, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off the A47, 7 km E of Uppingham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough

Historical Region: Hundred of Witchley [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Wrandike

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle

Century and Period: 12th - 15th century, Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk], and to Janice Tostevin for their photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is entry for Morcott [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK9200/morcott/] [accessed 21 July 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Rutland, vol. 2, 1935) notes: "The tower is of the first half of the 12th century and belongs to a church the nave of which covered the same area as at present and whose south doorway remains, though not in its original position. To this building a north aisle was added c. 1150–60, and a south aisle some forty or fifty years later (c. 1200), the arcades of which remain unaltered. [...] The font has a plain octagonal bowl of uncertain date, on a double square base". Noted in Pevsner (1984): "Font. Norman, drum-shaped, with blank arches on shafts." [NB: is this an error? to be re-checked]. The font, as it stands now [June 2010] consists of an octagonal basin with plain tapering sides, raised on a two-step lower base and plinth with a kneeling stone; it is possible that the basin may be formed of two blocks. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.5969, -0.6364

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 35′ 48.84″ N, 0° 38′ 11.04″ W

UTM: 30U 660084 5830054

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-07-02 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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