Claybrooke / Claibroc / Claybrooke Magna / Claybrooke Parva / Great Claybrooke / Little Claybrooke

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/claybrooke-church-st-peters/] [accessed 30 July 2015]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2003

Image Source: digital phitograph taken 12 April 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/386630] [accessed 30 July 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/claybrooke-church-st-peters/] [accessed 30 July 2015]

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view of font

Scene Description: the modern font [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2003

Image Source: digital phitograph taken 12 April 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/386340] [accessed 30 July 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19960CLA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Main Road, Claybrooke Parva, Leicestershire, LE17 5AE
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A5, just NW of Ullesthorpe
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Guthlaxton
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
Church Notes: church probably 12thC; re-built ca. 1300
There is an entry for Claybrooke [Magna and Parva] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/claybrooke-magna-and-parva/] [accessed 30 July 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Present font probably from the G.E. Street renovation of 1876-1878. [NB: we have no information on the font of the Norman church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.48677, -1.270849
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 29′ 12.37″ N, 1° 16′ 15.05″ W
UTM: 30U 617411 5816586