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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2010 by Russ Hamer [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thistleton_Rutland,_St_Nicholas.JPG ] [accessed 20 July 2015]

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view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 Octpober 2012 by Peter Wood [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3193827] [accessed 20 July 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19942THI

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: Main Street, Thistleton, Rutland LE15 7RE

Country Name: England

Location: Rutland, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A1, ENE of Market Overton, at the NE end of the Kendrew Barracks, 15 km NNE of Oakham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough

Historical Region: Hundred of Alstoe

Date: ca. 1226?

Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Early English

Font Notes: Click to view

There are seven entries for this Thistleton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK9117/thistleton/] [accessed 20 July 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Rutland, vol. 2, 1935) notes: "The first mention of the advowson is in 1226 [...] With the exception of the tower, which is of 14th-century date, the whole of the church was rebuilt in 1879–80 [...] The font and pulpit are modern."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.751, -0.6503

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 45′ 3.6″ N, 0° 39′ 1.08″ W

UTM: 30U 658583 5847161

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-07-20 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.