Howell / Huelle / Huuelle / Hwelle / Uuelle

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view of font

Source caption: "Font, St Oswald's church, Howell. 14th Century octagonal font."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Font, St Oswald's church, Howell. 14th Century octagonal font."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 September 2012 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3171545] [accessed 29 November 2018]
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view of font and cover

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Spencer Means, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2014 by Spencer Means [www.flickr.com/photos/hunky_punk/16283775026/in/photostream/] [accessed 29 November 2018]
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view of font in context

Source caption: "The 14th C. font with an iron plow, the Church of St Oswald, Howell, Lincolnshire, England".
Scene Description: Source caption: "The 14th C. font with an iron plow, the Church of St Oswald, Howell, Lincolnshire, England".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Spencer Means, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2014 by Spencer Means [www.flickr.com/photos/hunky_punk/16307914871] [accessed 29 November 2018]
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symbol - shield - coat of arms - arms of Hebden, Lutrell and Rye - in a quatrefoil - pointed or cusped quatrefoil - 8

[NB: the arms in the subject heading may not correspond exactly to those seen in the image]
Scene Description: [NB: the arms in the subject heading may not correspond exactly to those seen in the image]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Spencer Means, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 11 August 2014 by Spencer Means [www.flickr.com/photos/hunky_punk/16283775026/in/photostream/] [accessed 29 November 2018]
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Spencer Means, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 11 August 2014 by Spencer Means [www.flickr.com/photos/hunky_punk/16283775026/in/photostream/] [accessed 29 November 2018]
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view of church exterior - west view

Source caption: "The west end and Early English bellcote of the Church of St Oswald, Howell, Lincolnshire, England".
Scene Description: Source caption: "The west end and Early English bellcote of the Church of St Oswald, Howell, Lincolnshire, England".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Spencer Means, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2014 by Spencer Means [www.flickr.com/photos/hunky_punk/16295509566/in/photostream/] [accessed 29 November 2018]
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view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum

Source caption: "The Norman south porch doorway with plain tympanum and a mass dial, the Church of St Oswald, Howell, Lincolnshire, England".
Scene Description: Source caption: "The Norman south porch doorway with plain tympanum and a mass dial, the Church of St Oswald, Howell, Lincolnshire, England".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Spencer Means, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2014 by Spencer Means [www.flickr.com/photos/hunky_punk/16287992376/in/photostream/] [accessed 29 November 2018]
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view of church interior - tombstone

Source caption: "St. Oswald's church, Howell, Lincs. tombstone. This tombstone with a very clear cross marking, is said to date from the Anglo-Saxon period."
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Oswald's church, Howell, Lincs. tombstone. This tombstone with a very clear cross marking, is said to date from the Anglo-Saxon period."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Hurn, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2007 by Mark Hurn [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/545871] [accessed 29 November 2018]
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view of church interior - looking east

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Spencer Means, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2014 by Spencer Means [www.flickr.com/photos/hunky_punk/15689820093/in/photostream/] [accessed 29 November 2018]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 01171HOV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Oswald
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Oswald of Nothumbria
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) of the A17, 2-3 km N of Heckington, 8 km NE of Sleaford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Aswardhurn
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
There are five entries for Howell [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF1346/howell/] [accessed 29 November 2018], one of which reports a priest and a church in it. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports a font in the Decorated style here. Listed in Paley (1844) as a hexagonal baptismal font decorated with heraldic devices. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a heraldic [arms of Hebden, Lutrell and Rye] baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with shields in pointed quatrefoils." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF1350746256] notes: "Parish church. C12, C13, C14, C15, C16, restored 1870. [...] C14 octagonal font with cusped quatrefoil panels, armorial shields and moulded underside to plain octagonal stem."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 680569 5875825
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.0015, -0.309
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 0′ 5.4″ N, 0° 18′ 32.4″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined

REFERENCES

  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 170
  • Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=51050] [accessed 13 February 2007]
  • Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 28
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989, p. 491