Willey nr. Rugby / Welei / Wiley

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: on the old disused font [image not available]

view of church exterior - northwest view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 April 2012 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/7139381701/in/photostream/] [accessed 12 February 2015]

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view of church exterior - south view - detail

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the top of the modern font is visible at the far [west] end, left [south] side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2012

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view of font

Scene Description: the modern font [cf. FontNotes]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 April 2012 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/7141377527/] [accessed 12 February 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19720WIL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard
Church Location: Main Street, Willey, Warwickshire CV23 0SH
Country Name: England
Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off Coal Pit Lane, W of the A5 and Magna Park, 5 km W of Lutterworth, 10 km N of Rugby
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry
Historical Region: Hundred of Bumbelowe [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Knightlow
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SW corner of the nave
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Aidan McRae Thomson, of Warwickshire Churches [http://warwickshirechurches.weebly.com], for his photographs of this church and modern font
There are two entries for this Willey [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP4984/willey/] [accessed 12 February 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 6, 1951) notes: "The church of Willey, with a vir gate of land and 2 tofts, was given to the Norman abbey of Préaux between 1129 and 1146 by Roger Abbadon, when he became a monk there. [...] The church of ST. LEONARD [...] has undergone considerable restoration and the chancel was rebuilt and enlarged with a vestry on the north side, and at the same time the south porch was built, the south wall refaced and battlemented parapets added to the nave and stair turret. Earlier the west wall had been refaced with ashlar. The tower and nave probably date from the late 14th or early 15th century. [...] On the south side against the chancel arch there is a modern octagonal stone pulpit and near the south door a modern octagonal stone font. Standing in the southwest corner is a disused 14th-century font with a circular cup-shaped basin on an octagonal stem with a moulded capital and base on a square pedestal."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.458989, -1.270572
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 27′ 32.36″ N, 1° 16′ 14.06″ W
UTM: 30U 617504 5813497

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-02-12 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.