Swithland
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tim Glover, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 April 2012 by Tim Glover [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3497526] [accessed 26 August 2015]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the 18thC (?) in the context of the west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © St Leonard's Church, 2015
Image Source: undated photograph [edited] in St Leonard's Church [www.swithlandchurch.org/StLeonards/History/Index.] [accessed 26 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
FontID: 20019SWI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard
Church Location: Main Street, Swithland, Leicestershire LE12 8TJ
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located between Cropston and Woodhouse, in Charnwood district
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: , Medieval
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
No entry for Swithland found in the Domesday survey. The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: SK5549412826] (1966) reports a marble font of the 18th century in this church. The St. Leonard's Church site St Leonard's Church [www.swithlandchurch.org/StLeonards/History/Index.] [accessed 26 August 2015] notes: "The font – a bowl and pedestal by Haywood – was erected in 1760, and placed in its present position in 1928: it replaced a considerably larger mediaeval stone font, the basin of which was almost 3ft 6ins in diameter." [NB: we have no information on the present whereabouts of the medieval font]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.70733,
-1.180002
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 42′ 26.39″ N,
1° 10′ 48.01″ W
UTM: 30U 622960 5841268
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 167.64 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * 3 ft. 6 in. [cf. FontNotes]