Frolesworth / Frelesworde / Frelleswonde / Frellesworde / Frowlesworth
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view of church exterior - north view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/frolesworth-church-st-nicholas/] [accessed 11 August 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the modern font at the far [west] end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/frolesworth-church-st-nicholas/] [accessed 11 August 2015]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Entrance to rood staircase, the medieval font, and a broken stone coffin all early medieval."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/frolesworth-church-st-nicholas/] [accessed 11 August 2015]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 13162FRO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: 38 Main Street, Frolesworth, Leicestershire LE17 5EE
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (E) B4114, 8-10 km NW of Lutterworth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester [formerly in the Diocese of Peterborough]
Historical Region: Hundred of Guthlaxton
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Church Notes: original church early-13thC?
There are four entries for Frolesworth [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP5090/frolesworth/] [accessed 11 August 2015], none of which mention cleric or church in it. A font here is noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). The surviving battered basin of an old font is noted and illustrated in Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/frolesworth-church-st-nicholas/] [accessed 11 August 2015]: "The original font now lies before the doorway whilst the present font is Victorian." The octagonal basin appears to have had some decoration at the angles and sides, but they are much too damaged for identification; there is drain hole in the centre of the inner basin; no base present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.51006,
-1.25735
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 30′ 36.22″ N,
1° 15′ 26.46″ W
UTM: 30U 618265 5819198
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: no lining
REFERENCES
Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818
