Wistow nr. Leicester / Wistenestou / Witenestou
Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/wistow-church-st-wistans/] [accessed 28 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/wistow-church-st-wistans/] [accessed 28 August 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 Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/wistow-church-st-wistans/] [accessed 28 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Vigar, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 November 2009 by John Vigar [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1970268] [accessed 28 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 13140WIS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Wistan
Church Patron Saints: St. Wistan
Church Location: Kibworth Road, Wistow, Leicestershire LE8 0QF
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located between the A6 and the A50, 11 km SSE of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Gartree
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church
There are two entries for this Wistow [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP6495/wistow/] [accessed 28 August 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. A font is noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). The Victoria County History (Leicestershire, vol. 5, 1964) notes: "No priest was mentioned in Wistow in 1086, but the priest who held land at Newton Harcourt may have been the Rector of Wistow [...] The present structure, which dates from the 12th century, was enlarged c. 1300, again altered in the 14th and 15th centuries, and remodelled in the 18th century. [...] The vestry houses the 18th-century font, now disused. In 1798 the discarded medieval font was used in the churchyard to catch rainwater" [the VCH footnotes this entry: "Nichols, Leics. ii, 872 and plate cxxxix fig. 1" [to be completed]]. [NB: we have no other information on the earlier font of this church].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.55625,
-1.05302
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 33′ 22.5″ N,
1° 3′ 10.87″ W
UTM: 30U 631992 5824690
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2007-09-26 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Nichols, John, History and antiquities of the town and County of Leicester, London: John Nichols & Son, 1795-1811
Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818
