Welham / Walendeham
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Results: 2 records
view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: PICS digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/welham-church-at-andrew/] [accessed 27 August 2015] [NB: font is date 14thC in one source, but more likely 18thC [cf. FontNotes]].
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/welham-church-at-andrew/] [accessed 27 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking west
![the top of the font and the cover are visible at the far [west] end, left [south] side [NB: font is dated 14thC in one source, but is more likely 18thC [cf. FontNotes]]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1151014002_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the top of the font and the cover are visible at the far [west] end, left [south] side [NB: font is dated 14thC in one source, but is more likely 18thC [cf. FontNotes]]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/welham-church-at-andrew/] [accessed 27 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 20021WEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century / 18th century, Decorated? / Modern?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: Bowden Lane, Welham, Leics. LE16 7UJ
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 7 km NNE of Market Harborough
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Gartree
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the font of the original Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for this Welham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP7692/welham/] [accessed 27 August 2015], one of which mentions a priest, but not a church in it, though there probably was one there. The Victoria County History (Leicestershire, vol. 5, 1964) notes: "There was a priest in Welham in 1086. (fn. 90) Richard Basset included the church of Welham in the endowment of Launde Priory which he founded before 1125. [...] The small shallowbowled octagonal font and wooden cover are of the early 18th century." The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: SP7654192444] (1966) notes: " Font may be C14, simple octagonal basin rising from octagonal shaft, with 8 sided tapering wood cover."
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 644239 5821459
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.524115, -0.87389
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 31′ 26.81″ N, 0° 52′ 26″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.