Shearsby / Seuesbi / Suesbi / Sueuesbi
Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
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view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/shearsby-st-mary-magdalene/] [accessed 5 October 2015]
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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/shearsby-st-mary-magdalene/] [accessed 5 October 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the modern font and the Wyatt gravestone ar visible at the far end, left side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/shearsby-st-mary-magdalene/] [accessed 5 October 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font in context
Scene Description: the modern font -- Source caption: "Leicestershire, Shearsby. Font in front of Wyatt family gravestone".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © jmc4, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 October 2006 by jmc4 [www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/6996357739] [accessed 5 October 2015]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13163SHE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church or Chapel of St. Mary Magdalene
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary Magdalene
Church Notes: medieval church re-built late 19thC
Church Address: Church Lane, Shearsby, Leicestershire LE17 6PG
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A5199, 11 km NE of Lutterworth, 15 km SSE of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Guthlaxton
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for Shearsby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP6290/shearsby/] [accessed 24 August 2015], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. A font here is noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). The present font is modern: a round basin with a thick braided rope moulding around the upper rim, four carved niches at 90-degree angles on the sides, a cluster of squat columns, an octagonal lower base and a quadrangular plinth; Victorian and ambitiously ugly.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 629957 5819960
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.514247, -1.084869
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 30′ 51.29″ N, 1° 5′ 5.53″ W
REFERENCES
- Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818, [vol. IV, part I, p. 526 and pl. xxxiv / [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 30 September 2007]