Misterton nr. Walcote / Menstretone / Ministone / Minstretone

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Misterton: St Leonards Church. The 14th century church of the Misterton estate viewed looking south eastwards from the north west corner of the graveyard."

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 6 November 2005 by Nigel Cox,[www.geograph.org.uk/photo/75494] [accessed 14 February 2018]

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view of church exterior in context - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 March 2008 by Ian Rob [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/713409] [accessed 14 February 2018]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the 19th-century font at the west end of the nave

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 June 2009 by Walwyn

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission + Creative Commons Licence [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/] [accessed 27 March 2009]

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the 19th-century font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 June 2009 by Walwyn

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13166MIS

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard

Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard

Church Location: Misterton, Harborough, Leicestershire, LE17, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A4304, adjacent to Walcote, 2 km ESE of Lutterworth, SSW of Leicester

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough

Historical Region: Hundred of Guthlaxton

Font Location in Church: [disappeared?]

Century and Period: , Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Lloyd Patton [Walwyn], of http://professor-moriarty.com, for his photograhs of this font

Church Notes: present church mid-16thC; restored mid-19thC -- there is another Misterton St Leonard in Somerset, listed in BSI with an ancient font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for this Misterton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP5583/misterton/] [accessed 14 February 2018], none of which reports cleric or church in it. A font here is noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). The entry for this church in the British Listed Buildings site [Listing NGR: SP5570283990] reports: "C19 octagonal drum font on octagonal plinth." The present font in Misterton St. Leonard's is a 19th-century replacement after Upcott's visit of ca. 1818; according to the same source [BLB entry above] the restoration of this church was carried out by William Smith in 1863; we have no information on the whereabouts of the old font.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.450407, -1.181838

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 27′ 1.46″ N, 1° 10′ 54.62″ W

UTM: 30U 623556 5812690

REFERENCES

Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818