Castle Donington / Dunintone / Dunitone
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view of basin
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Image Source: digital photograph in The Flower Garden's facebook post [www.facebook.com/pages/The-Flower-Garden/133340740173307] [accessed 30 July 2015]
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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/castle-donington-st-edward-king-and-martyr/] [accessed 30 July 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/castle-donington-st-edward-king-and-martyr/] [accessed 30 July 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/castle-donington-st-edward-king-and-martyr/] [accessed 30 July 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 13153CAS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Edward, King and Martyr
Church Patron Saints: St. Edward the Confessor [it may have been dedicated to St. Luke at some point]
Church Location: Church Lane, Castle Donington, Leics. DE74 2LA
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (N) of the A453, S of the A50, W of the M1, 14 km ESE of Derby, 30 km NW of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Goscote
Font Location in Church: Inside the church. at the W end of the S aisle
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
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 [Castle] Donington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK4427/castle-donington/] [accessed 30 July 2015], one of which 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). Included in the report by the Hon. Secretary of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society is a summary of an expedition by members of the Society to Castle Donington by A.S. Mammatt (Journal of the D..., vol. XII, 1890: xxi-xxiv), in which the font in the church is mentioned: "The font is octagonal with shields on which are roses and crosses alternately." The English Heritage entry for this church [Listing NGR: SK4470527333] (1962) reports "a C15 octagonal stone font with heraldic panels" in it. An account of this church by A. Hamilton Thompson [www.le.ac.uk/lahs/downloads/CastleDonPagesfromVolume14-1-3.pdf] [accessed 30 July 2015] reads: "There is an octagonal font of the fifteenth century, with shields, roses and other figures carved upon its faces."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.843177,
-1.340763
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 50′ 35.44″ N,
1° 20′ 26.75″ W
UTM: 30U 611751 5856115
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
