Wymondham / Wimundesham / Witmeham
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil
design element - motifs - saltire
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/wymondham-church-st-peter/] [accessed 28 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/wymondham-church-st-peter/] [accessed 28 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking west
![the font at the far [west] end, centre aisle](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1151014069_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the font at the far [west] end, centre aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/wymondham-church-st-peter/] [accessed 28 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 20024WYM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Nurses Lane, Wymondham, Leicestershire LE14 2AA
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located ESE of Melton Mowbray
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Framland [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church
Church Notes: original church here 13thC
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for they Wymondham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK8518/wymondham/] [accessed 28 August 2015], one of which mentions a priest, but not a church in it, though there probably was one there. The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: SK851571865] (1968) notes: "Fittings include octagonal C15 font with saltire cross and quatrefoil panels".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.758316, -0.74042
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 45′ 29.94″ N, 0° 44′ 25.51″ W
UTM: 30U 652476 5847780
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal