Grace Dieu
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Scene Description: interior of the chapter house of the abbey
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Scene Description: exterior of the chapter house of the abbey
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2013 by JohnArmagh [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GraceDieuPriory_ChapterHouse.JPG] [accessed 12 August 2015]
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![the south range of the abbey buildings
S RANGE digital photograph taken 9 September 2013 by JohnArmagh [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GraceDieuPriory_SouthRange.JPG] [accessed 12 August 2015] CC-BY-SA-3.0
CHAPTER HOUSE EXT digital photograph taken 9 September 2013 by JohnArmagh [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GraceDieuPriory_ChapterHouse.JPG] [accessed 12 August 2015] CC-BY-SA-3.0
CHAPTER HOUSE INT digital photograph taken 3 May 2009 by MaltaGC [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GraceDieuProry02.jpg] [accessed 12 August 2015] CC-BY-SA-3.0](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150901022_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the south range of the abbey buildings
S RANGE digital photograph taken 9 September 2013 by JohnArmagh [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GraceDieuPriory_SouthRange.JPG] [accessed 12 August 2015] CC-BY-SA-3.0
CHAPTER HOUSE EXT digital photograph taken 9 September 2013 by JohnArmagh [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GraceDieuPriory_ChapterHouse.JPG] [accessed 12 August 2015] CC-BY-SA-3.0
CHAPTER HOUSE INT digital photograph taken 3 May 2009 by MaltaGC [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GraceDieuProry02.jpg] [accessed 12 August 2015] CC-BY-SA-3.0
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © JohnArmagh, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2013 by JohnArmagh [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GraceDieuPriory_SouthRange.JPG] [accessed 12 August 2015]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 19985GRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (early?), Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Priory of Grace Dieu [in ruins]
Church Notes: Augustinian nuns's priory ca. 1235-1241
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near Thringstone
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Leicester]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the early-13thC priory church here)
Font Notes:
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The Victoria County History (Leicestershire, vol. 2, 1954) notes: "The Priory of Grace Dieu at Belton was founded by Rose de Verdon for Austin [Augustinian?] nuns between 1235 [...] and 1241 [...] The priory was finally surrendered in October 1538. (fn. 20) An inventory of the convent's possessions, taken immediately after the surrender, shows that to the end some of the priory's land was being farmed under the direct control of the nuns. The same inventory mentions the church, cloister, and chapter house, with other buildings."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 610719 5846909
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.760664, -1.359199
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 45′ 38.39″ N, 1° 21′ 33.11″ W
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.