Heather / Hadre
Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/heather-church-st-john-the-baptist/] [accessed 12 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking west
![the top of the modern font and cover is visible in the backgound, left [south] side](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150901071_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the top of the modern font and cover is visible in the backgound, left [south] side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/heather-church-st-john-the-baptist/] [accessed 12 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the top of the modern font and cover is visible in the foreground, left-hand corner
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/heather-church-st-john-the-baptist/] [accessed 12 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 19986HEA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Address: St John’s Close, Heather, Leics. LE67 2QP
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located SSE of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, by the SW corner of the Sence Valley Forest Park
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred og Guthlaxton
Additional Comments: altered font? (is the base of the present font the original from the 14thC?)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Heather [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK3910/heather/] [accessed 12 August 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Noted and partially illustrated in the Leicestershire Churches site [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/heather-church-st-john-the-baptist/] [accessed 12 August 2015]: "The font probably dates from the Victorian period although the base may be older." The font consists of a modern octagonal basin raised on a base said to be older [cf. supra].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 606482 5839399
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.694025, -1.42439
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 41′ 38.49″ N, 1° 25′ 27.8″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal dome with pronounced arrises and cross finial; modern