Peatling Parva / Little Peatling / Petlinge

INFORMATION

Font ID: 17682PEA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: Main Street, Peatling Parva, Leicestershire LE17 5QA
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located SSW of Peatling Magna, near the Bruntingthorpe airfield
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Guthlaxton
Additional Comments: damaged font - repaired font -- photo of font at www.flickr.com/photos/16545729@N03/3678528023/ [accessed 19 Sept 2011] [photo download disabled]
Font Notes:
There are six entries for Peatling [variant spelling] [known today as Peatling Magna and Peatling Parva] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/peatling/] [accessed 19 August 2015], one of which mentions a priest, though not a church in it, though there probably was one here. A font here is described in Ecclesiastica [http://ecclesiastica.co.uk/Peatling-Parva---St-Andrews---Leicestershire.php] [accessed 19 September 2011] as a very simple stone font with a wooden lid. The same source notes the church building: "Original Church 13th century restored and extended on 1876 by the Architect R Kinle". The font consists of a practically cylindrical basin on a wider round base; there are new-stone insert repairs at the upper rim, where the olf metal staples of the cover would have been. The present cover is round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 626606 5818494
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.501856, -1.134773
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 30′ 6.68″ N, 1° 8′ 5.18″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]