Tugby / Tochebi / Tokebi
Results: 4 records
view of church exterior - tower - window
Scene Description: Source caption: "Norman window in tower".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/tugby-st-thomas-a-becket/] [accessed 27 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/tugby-st-thomas-a-becket/] [accessed 27 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/tugby-st-thomas-a-becket/] [accessed 27 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13150TUG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Thomas a Becket
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Thomas of Canterbury [aka St. Thomas à Becket]
Church Address: Main Street, Tugby, Leics. LE7 9ED
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A47, 5 km ESE of Billesdon, 18 km ESE of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Goscote
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Tugby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK7600/tugby/] [accessed 27 August 2015]; it mentions a priest, but not a church in it, though there probably was one here. A font in this church is noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: SK7617801012] (1966) notes: "Font is probably C14. Small octagonal basin with various emblems on each face."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 643563 5829801
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.599244, -0.880233
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 35′ 57.28″ N, 0° 52′ 48.84″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818, [vol. III, part I, p. 514 and pl. lxviii / [http://books.google.com/books?id=gLwuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA228&lpg=PA228&dq=upcott+1818&source=web&ots=lJwT-K00zU&sig=oVT6Kc6G03vqjYf4Synuk_Aek9w#PPP15,M1] [accessed 29 September 2007]