Edmondthorpe / Edmerestorp / Edmersthorp / Edmerthorp / Thorp Edmer

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church exterior in context - north view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrew Tatlow, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2012 by Andrew Tatlow [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3350195] [accessed 11 August 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by J.Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3130989] [accessed 11 August 2015]
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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: at the west end of the nave, centre aisle
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INFORMATION

FontID: 13129EDM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels
Church Location: Edmondthorpe, Leicestershire, LE14 2JZ
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located about 10 km E of Melton Mowbray, 6-7 km N of Oakham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Framland [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church; at the W end of the nave, centre aisle
Century and Period: 13th century, Decorated
Church Notes: church redundant since 1999; now in the care of The Churches Conservation Trust
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Edmonthorpe [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK8517/edmondthorpe/] [accessed 11 August 2015]; it mentions a priest, but not a church in it, though there probably was one there. A font here is noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). The font consists of a roughly cylindrical basin decorated with a single flat moulding at the uper rim, and a thin moulding on the underbowl; raised on a central shaft and four outer colonnettes with moulded capitals and bases; on a round lower base and a circular plinth; the font appears to have been re-tooled all over recently. The wooden cover is of the simple port-Reformation design, a round flat platform with eight raised scroll ribs around a turned pivot; ball finial; 18th-century?

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.748319, -0.730337
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 44′ 53.95″ N, 0° 43′ 49.21″ W
UTM: 30U 653191 5846689

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 18th century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818