Belvoir Priory

INFORMATION

Font ID: 22094BEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Benedictione Priory Church [disappeared]
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Address: Belvoir, Grantham, UK
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the medieval priory church here) -- This Belvoir is locally pronounced like 'beaver'
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

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