Whetstone / Hevetsan / Westham / Weston

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Results: 2 records

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/whetstone-st-peter/] [accessed 28 August 2015]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - looking northeast

Scene Description: view across from the south aisle

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/whetstone-st-peter/] [accessed 28 August 2015]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

Font ID: 20022WHE

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Medieval

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter

Church Notes: orig. church 13thC? (White (1863) says 1355 based on the dated founders' stone in the church)

Church Address: Church Lane, Whetstone, Leicestershire LE8 6LP

Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the M1, 8 km SSW of Leicester town centre

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester

Historical Region: Hundred of Guthlaxton

Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 13th-14thC church here)

Font Notes: Click to view

There is an entry for Whetstone [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP5597/whetstone/] [accessed 28 August 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. White (1863: 769) reports "a new font by T. Cooper, Esq.", which would have been part of the 1856 renovations, but does not mention the earlier font here. Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/whetstone-st-peter/] [accessed 28 August 2015] reports: "The font dates from 1856 which replaces a slender based octagonal one."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 623447 5826312

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.572829, -1.178381

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 34′ 22.18″ N, 1° 10′ 42.17″ W