Kimcote / Chenemundescote
Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
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Results: 9 records
design element - architectural - arch or window - pointed - 8
Scene Description: deeply carved
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/kimcote-church-all-saints/] [accessed 17 August 2015]
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design element - motifs - floral - square flower - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - in a square - 8
Scene Description: some of the quatrefoils are cusped, others round
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/kimcote-church-all-saints/] [accessed 17 August 2015]
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/kimcote-church-all-saints/] [accessed 17 August 2015]
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inscription
Scene Description: the date inscribed, 1654, is another example of the Post-Reformation practice of inscrbing earlier fonts restored to the church in 17th-century England (Bond, 1908: 267)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/kimcote-church-all-saints/] [accessed 17 August 2015]
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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/kimcote-church-all-saints/] [accessed 17 August 2015]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/kimcote-church-all-saints/] [accessed 17 August 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/kimcote-church-all-saints/] [accessed 17 August 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font is visible at the far end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/kimcote-church-all-saints/] [accessed 17 August 2015]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: located just east of the tower screen; through the opening some bell-ringing ropes are visible
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/kimcote-church-all-saints/] [accessed 17 August 2015]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 19992KIM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Walton Road, Kimcote, Leicestershire LE17 5RU
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located NE of Lutterworth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Guthlaxton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 14th - 16th century[re-carved?], Medieval [altered]
Church Notes: Norman tower dates the original church here to the 12thC
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Kimcote [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP5886/kimcote/] [accessed 17 August 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. English Heritage [Listing NGR: SP5858286536] (1955) notes: "Octagonal pedestal font with panels with quatrefoils in circles, dated 1654, but probably earlier." Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/kimcote-church-all-saints/] [accessed 17 August 2015] notes: "The church underwent a major restoration in 1642, at around that time the font was desecrated and the cover removed, by 1654 the font was restored. The church originally had a steeple but this fell into the church in 1771 and the tower was rebuilt without one. There may have also been further damage to the font after this event." [NB: the practice of dating older fonts in England to the time when they were restored to their churches after the Commonwealth is well documented; this could be another such case].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.473751, -1.139446
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 28′ 25.51″ N, 1° 8′ 22.01″ W
UTM: 30U 626370 5815360
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Location: on the upper frame of one of the basin panels
Inscription Text: "1654"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]