Newbold Verdon / Newbold de Verdun / Niwebold

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view of church exterior - south view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 September 2013 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/10184755123/] [accessed 12 January 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 September 2013 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/10184706566/] [accessed 12 January 2015]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2013

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19658NEW
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Church Location: 24 Main Street, Newbold Verdon, Leicestershire, LE9 9NL -- Tel.: +44 1455 824986
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located N of Brascote, 5 km E of Market-Bosworth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Guthlaxton [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Sparkenhoe
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Aidan McRae Thomson, of Warwickshire Churches [warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/], for his photographs of this church and modern font
Church Notes: church re-built late-19thC
There are two entries for Newebold [Verdon] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SK4403/newbold-verdon/] [accessed 12 January 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. English Heritage [Listing NGR: SK4433303786] (1966) reports: "Font has plain octagonal bowl, possibly C13." [NB: not clear whether this old font is still in the church; there is a later font here, probably from the late-19th century rebuilding of the church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.630065, -1.346924
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 37′ 48.23″ N, 1° 20′ 48.92″ W
UTM: 30U 611880 5832402

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal