Thurlaston / Turchilestone

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Results: 3 records

view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/thurlaston-all-saints/] [accessed 27 August 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/thurlaston-all-saints/] [accessed 27 August 2015]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2009 by Christopher Jones [www.flickr.com/photos/glugwine/sets/72157617985063014/] [accessed 17 August 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15154THU
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Church Street, Thurlaston, Leics. LE8 7TL
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A47, 10 km SW of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church and modern font
Church Notes: present church 13thC; restored 19thC
No entry found for this Thurlaston in the Domesday survey. The present font is modern, probably of the 19th-century restorations here; it consists of an octagonal basin of slightly tapering sides deeply carved with the symbols of the Evangelists, the IHS monogram, an Agnus Dei, etc., raised on a moulded octagonal pedestal base and plain plinth of the same shape. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with a metal ting handle; probably of the same date. [NF: the fabric of the church goes back to Norman times, but we have no information on the earlier font(s)]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.587123, -1.260182
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 35′ 13.64″ N, 1° 15′ 36.65″ W
UTM: 30U 617866 5827765