Wymondham / Wimundesham / Witmeham
Results: 5 records
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 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
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
INFORMATION
Font ID: 20024WYM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: original church here 13thC
Church Address: Nurses Lane, Wymondham, Leicestershire LE14 2AA
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located ESE of Melton Mowbray
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Framland [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original 13thC church here)
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".
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 652476 5847780
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.758316, -0.74042
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 45′ 29.94″ N, 0° 44′ 25.51″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal