Belvoir Priory

INFORMATION

FontID: 22094BEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Benedictione Priory Church [disappeared]
Church Location: Belvoir, Grantham, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A52, in the original grounds of Belvoir Castle, to the NE of the castle, 9-10 km WSW of Grantham
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Lincoln]
Historical Region: formerly Lincolnshire
Century and Period: 11th century, Norman
Font Notes:
No individual entry found for Belvoir in the Domesday survey. The entry for this priory in the Victoria County History (Lincoln, vol, 2, 1906) notes that it was started in 1076; it later received the churches at Redmile and Woolsthorpe as gifts; it was dissolved ca. 1539. [NB: we have no information on the font of its medieval church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.898541, -0.781701
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 53′ 54.75″ N, 0° 46′ 54.13″ W
UTM: 30U 649209 5863288