Great Easton nr Drayton / Easton Magna / Estone
Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
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Results: 3 records
view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: NéA
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Chris Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/great-easton-church-st-andrew/] [accessed 1 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Chris Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/great-easton-church-st-andrew/] [accessed 1 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font and cover [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Chris Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/great-easton-church-st-andrew/] [accessed 1 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 19956EAS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: 11 Church Bank, Great Easton, Leics. LE16 8SN -- Tel.: +44 1536 772159
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located near Drayton and Market Harborough, in the Welland Valley, close to the borders with Northamptonshire and Rutland
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester [formerly in the Diocese of Peterborough]
Historical Region: Hundred of Gartree
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church and modern font
Church Notes: originally a chapelry in Bringhurst parish
There are two entries for this [Great] Easton [ in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP8492/great-easton/] [accessed 1 September 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Leicestershire, vol. 5, 1964) notes on St. Andrew's church: "It has been suggested that herring-bone masonry, visible externally in the west wall of the nave immediately north of the tower, is of Norman origin. [...] An 'old round font', formerly in the church, may also have survived from the 12th century. [...] Fittings in the church include an early-17th-century carved oak pulpit and a painted royal arms of the 18th century. The present font dates from the late 19th century." [NB: we have not been able to corroborate the survival of the old font; the 19th-century stone font here is a Victorian rendering of a medieval font].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.529164,
-0.749933
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 31′ 44.99″ N,
0° 44′ 59.76″ W
UTM: 30U 652630 5822275
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-07-28 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
