Stanton-under-Bardon / Stantone

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones, in Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/stanton-under-bardon-st-mary-all-saints/] [accessed 6 October 2015]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: The figure in the pulpit is a dummy with a flower pot on its head.

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones, in Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/stanton-under-bardon-st-mary-all-saints/] [accessed 6 October 2015]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 20016STA

Church/Chapel: Old chapel [disappeared -- present Church of St. Mary and All Saints]

Church Location: address of the present church: Main Street, Stanton under Bardon, Leics. LE67 9TR

Country Name: England

Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located 2-3 km NW of Thornton, 13 km SW of Loughborough, 15 km NW of Leicester

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester

Historical Region: Hundred of Guthlaxton

Century and Period: 16th - 17th century,

Church Notes: a chapel-of-ease to Thornton documented here by 1622; last recorded in 1635 as decayed; present church early20thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Stanton [-under-Bardon] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK4610/stanton-under-bardon/] [accessed 26 August 2015] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. [NB: we have no information on the font of the 1622 chapel-of-ease here]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.687501, -1.313521

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 41′ 15.01″ N, 1° 18′ 48.68″ W

UTM: 30U 613991 5838843