Smeeton Westerby / Esmeditone / Smetheton / Smitetone / Smitone

Image copyright © Andrew H Jackson, 2007

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: the modern church

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/smeeton-westerby-christ-church/] [accessed 25 August 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the new church

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/smeeton-westerby-christ-church/] [accessed 25 August 2015]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font and cover in the modern church

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrew H Jackson, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2007 by Andrew H Jackson [www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/images/buildings/en/191/191391-43970-800.jpg] [accessed 25 August 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20015SME
Church/Chapel: [disappeared chapel]
Church Location: address of the new church: Saddington Road, Smeeton Westerby, Leicestershire LE8 0QS
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A6, 15 km SSE of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Gartree
Century and Period: 16th century, Late Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk], for his photographs of the new church here
There are four entries for Smeeton [Westerby] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP6792/smeeton-westerby/] [accessed 25 August 2015], none of which mention cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Leicestershire, vol. 5, 1964) notes: "In 1587 Elizabeth I granted the graveyard of a chapel at Smeeton to Edward Heron and John Nicholas. (fn. 492) Nothing further is known about the chapel, nor is it clear how the graveyard came into the queen's hands, but the grant seems to imply that the chapel was disused by 1587. [...] In 1851 a church was built at Smeeton Westerby, (fn. 501) and in 1852 the township was formed into a separate ecclesiastical parish." The present octagonal font with a Gothic-style cover are probably from this 19th-century church. [NB: we have no information of the font of the earlier chapel here, if it had one].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.530187, -0.999333
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 31′ 48.67″ N, 0° 59′ 57.6″ W
UTM: 30U 635711 5821891

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-08-25 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.