Withcote / Wicoc / Wicote
Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2009
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Results: 4 records
view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2009 by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/withcote-chapel/] [accessed 28 August 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the modern font in the foreground
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2009 by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/withcote-chapel/] [accessed 28 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the modern font at the back of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2009 by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/withcote-chapel/] [accessed 28 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2009 by Christopher Jones [http://www.flickr.com/photos/glugwine/3701425599/in/set-72157621012278923/] [accessed 17 August 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 15152WIT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Withcote Chapel [redundant]
Church Location: Oakham Road, Withcote, Oakham, Leicestershire, LE15 8DP
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 7 km SW of Oakham, 20 km E of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Framland [in Domesday]
Date: ca. 1535?
Century and Period: 16th century, Early Tudor
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones [aka Glugwine], of www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk, for his photographs of this church and modern font
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Withcote [variant spelling] in the Domeday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK7905/withcote/] [accessed 28 August 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. A font in this chapel is noted and illustrated in Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/withcote-chapel/] [accessed 28 August 2015]: "In 1865 the chapel was reseated and a new over large font installed." The massive font at Withcote Chapel consists of a square basin with a running inscription ["Suffer little children...Kingdom of God"] on the sides that are otherwise plain; raised on a central pillar and four detached colonnettes at the angles, a square lower base and a two-step plinth. Round wooden font cover. [NB: the chapel itself is originally 16th-century, but we have no information on the earlier font here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.644, -0.8254
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 38′ 38.4″ N, 0° 49′ 31.44″ W
UTM: 30U 647126 5834889