Calton / Carleton

INFORMATION

Font ID: 13169CAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Church/Chapel of St. Mary
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26336436
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 3 km NNW of Market Bosworth
Font Notes:
Upcott (1818) notes and illustrates a font at 'Carleton' in the entry that also includes the churches of Shenton and Barleston, which would make it Carlton, just NNW of Market Bosworth. [see also Index entry for Carlton Curlieu, also in Leics.]

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 II, p. 531 and pl. lxxxvii / [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]