Misterton nr. Walcote / Menstretone / Ministone / Minstretone
Image copyright © Walwyn, 2009
Standing permission + Creative Commons Licence [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/] [accessed 27 March 2009]
Results: 4 records
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the 19th-century font at the west end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Walwyn, 2009
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 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."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nigel Cox, 2005
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior in context - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ian Rob, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 March 2008 by Ian Rob [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/713409] [accessed 14 February 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the 19th-century font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Walwyn, 2009
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]
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13166MIS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Font Location in Church: [disappeared?]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Leonard
Church Notes: present church mid-16thC; restored mid-19thC -- there is another Misterton St Leonard in Somerset, listed in BSI with an ancient font
Church Address: Misterton, Harborough, Leicestershire, LE17, UK
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
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 Notes:
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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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Lloyd Patton [Walwyn], of http://professor-moriarty.com, for his photograhs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 623556 5812690
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.450407, -1.181838
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 27′ 1.46″ N, 1° 10′ 54.62″ 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. 527 and pl. xliv / [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]