Benchmark - St John the Baptist - Whitwick, Leicestershire
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N 52° 44.493 W 001° 21.437
30U E 610896 N 5844786
Cut benchmark on the south west corner of St John the Baptist's church tower, Whitwick.
Waymark Code: WMVY96
Location: East Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 06/10/2017
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Cut benchmark on the south west corner of St John the Baptist's church tower, Whitwick.
|
Square |
Easting |
Northing |
Mark type |
Description |
Height |
Order |
Datum |
Verified year |
Metres above ground |
|
SK |
4348 |
1618 |
CUT MARK |
ST JOHN THE BAPTISTS CH SE FACE S ANG BUTT |
135.250 |
3 |
'N' |
1963 |
0.500 |
"Church, late C13 and C14 restored 1848, rainwater heads dated 1898, of Charnwood granite rubble with ashlar tower, clerestorey and porch, Swithland slate roof to nave and chancel, lead roofs to aisles. Nave, aisles, chancel, porch, 4-stage W tower, 5-light E window with intersecting tracery. S side of chancel has string course with ballflower and a 2-light window with plate tracery and a doorway and 2 pairs of lancets beneath. S side of nave has 2 2-light windows with Geometrical tracery, a cusped tomb recess beneath a gable and a gabled porch. 4 2-light square-headed C17 clerestorey windows. The tower has angle buttresses with niches and the bell-stage has on each face 2-light bell-openings with Decorated tracery, flanked by blank panels with identical tracery. Interior: 4-bay nave arcade of octagonal piers. Cl9 roofs, but the nave roof incorporates a C17 tie-beam. C14 octagonal font. Tomb effigy of knight, presumably from the exterior tomb recess. Tablet in memory of Samuel Litherland of Thringstone, d.1695, with winged cherubs and skull."
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