Allexton / Adelachestone / Alexton

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Chris Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/allexton-church-st-peter/] [accessed 23 July 2015]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: 18thC B&W engraving [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/allexton-church-st-peter/] [accessed 23 July 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Chris Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/allexton-church-st-peter/] [accessed 23 July 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking northeast

Scene Description: showing the Norman north arcade

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Chris Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/allexton-church-st-peter/] [accessed 23 July 2015]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph 9 August 2010 by Vivian Anthony in Leicestershire Villages [www.leicestershirevillages.com/allexton/gallery,491676.html] [accessed 23 July 2015]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: in the south aisle, near the south doorway

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Chris Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/allexton-church-st-peter/] [accessed 23 July 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19950ALL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Main Street, Allexton, Leics LE15 9AB

Country Name: England

Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Locatedoff (S) the A47, 5 km WNW of Uppingham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough

Historical Region: Hundred of Goscote [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle, by the S doorway

Century and Period: 14th century [re-cut], Decorated? [altered]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for Allexton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK8100/allexton/] [accessed 23 July 2015], one of which mentions a priest, but not a church, in it, though there probably was one there. Noted and illustrated in Chris Jones' Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/allexton-church-st-peter/] [accessed 23 July 2015]. Noted and illustrated in Leicestershire Villages [www.leicestershirevillages.com/allexton/gallery,491676.html] [accessed 23 July 2015]: "The Font in the South Aisle was restored from a C14th stone.The South Aisle had been demolished in the C16th but was rebuilt with dormer windows in the Millican Restoration of 1862. The Rector Dr Butler commented "this portion of the church is not required for seats, the population of the village being small ..... it will be used as a baptistery."" The font consists now of an octagonal basin with plain vertical sides, chamfered underbowl, raised on a moulded octagonal pedestal base, with moulded lower base. Wooden octagonal font cover, flat and plain; modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.595341, -0.793966

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 35′ 43.23″ N, 0° 47′ 38.28″ W

UTM: 30U 649419 5829543

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]