South Ormsby / Ormesbi / South Ormesby

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B01: angel - holding shield - emblem - Annunciation

Scene Description: the emblem on the right [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken December 2008 by Allan Barton [http://medieval-church-art.blogspot.com/2008/12/in-god-is-al-godnes-inscribed-font.html] [accessed 29 December 2008]

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B02: angel - holding shield - emblem - the instruments of the Passion

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B03: angel - holding shield - emblem - M for Mary the Virgin

Scene Description: seen here in the right panel

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B04: angel - holding shield - emblem - IHS

Scene Description: seen here in the centre panel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2018 by Dean Bird, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 7 January 2019]

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B05: angel - holding shield - inscription

Scene Description: seen here in the left panel

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angel - cherub - 8

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design element - architectural - buttress - 8

Scene Description: one at each angle of the stem

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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design element - motifs - tracery

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inscription

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view of basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2008 by Allan Barton [http://medieval-church-art.blogspot.com/2008/12/in-god-is-al-godnes-inscribed-font.html] [accessed 29 December 2008]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 1 July 2010 by Colin Park [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2150595] [accessed 7 January 2019]

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view of church exterior - south aisle - southwest portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "Norman Doorway. At the west end of the south aisle, the only bit of Norman in an otherwise entirely Gothic church, single-chamfered with billet in the hood mould. Said to have come from the nearby ruined church of St.Andrew at Calceby".

Image Source: digital photograph taken January 2006 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/113102] [accessed 7 July 2019]

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view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Leonard's Church. From the footpath through the South Ormsby Hall parkland."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2013 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3544921] [accessed 7 July 2019]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2008 by Allan Barton [http://medieval-church-art.blogspot.com/2008/12/in-god-is-al-godnes-inscribed-font.html] [accessed 29 December 2008]

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view of font and cover - south side

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01572ORM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard

Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard

Church Location: Main St, South Ormsby cum Ketsby, Louth LN11, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A16, 10 km W of Alford, 25 km NW of Skegness (dir. Louth)

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln

Historical Region: Hundred of Hill

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ken Redmore, Website Editor, and Dean Bird, of the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, for the photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for [South] Ormasby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF3775/south-ormsby/] [accessed 7 January 2019] none of which report a church in it; one, however, was in the shared lordship of Almer and Ernwin the priest in 1066. Cox & Harvey (1907) describe the South Ormsby as bearing an inscription on the base with "the names of the donors Rudolph Bolle and his wife". Described in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicualr], very lavishly carved. Panelled stem, angels against the underside of the bowl, shields on the bowl with the symbols of the Annunciation, the Instruments of the Passion, the M for Mary, the IHS, and the arms [...] One of the shields is inscribed with a great rarity, a Middle English inscription: 'In God is al godnes' it reads [...] All these shields are held by angels with hair standing out from their heads. The inscription at the foot refers to the donation of the font by Rudulphus Bolle and his wife.." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF3694175149] notes: "Parish church. C12, c.1200, c.1384, chancel C15, restoration of 1871-2 by James Fowler. [...] In the west wall is a doorway comprising a re-used mid C12 round arched head with billet moulded hood, said to come from Calceby [...] Fittings are all C19 apart from the fine font with panelled octagonal traceried stem, the bowl has angel supporters and on the sides are shields with Symbols of the Passion, and the Virgin Mary set in cusped roundels." Described and illustrated in Allan Barton [http://medieval-church-art.blogspot.com/2008/12/in-god-is-al-godnes-inscribed-font.html] [accessed 29 December 2009]: "The base of the font is inscribed with a patronal inscription, recording that it was given to the church by Ralph Bolle and his wife. The inscription reads 'Orate pro animabus Radulphi Bolle ... uxoris eius qui fieri fecerunt hoc baptisterium' . 'Pray for the soul of Ralph Bolle [and ? ] his wife who made this baptistry'. It is curious this use of the word 'baptisterium' rather than 'fons' in this context, I've not come across that before. The part of the inscription that records the name of Ralph's wife is sadly missing, and as a consequence we don't really know who Ralph Bolle is [...] He was probably a member of the family of the same name from Swineshead, who inherited the neighbouring manor of Haugh in the middle of the fifteenth century [...] The bowl of the font is [...] decorated with figures of angels holding shields, Two are heraldic (and may provide evidence of patronage [...]), others are charged with the sacred monogram 'IHS', the monogram of Our Lady as Queen of Heaven 'MR', the instruments of the Passion and the mongram of the Annunciation, i.e. a lily pot between the letters A and M." The wooden cover is octagonal and flat. There are several areas of damage to the font: at the upper rim, above the shield with the inscription is a new-stone insert which must have repaired an area affected by the old cover staples; the foot of the stem is badly cracked and poorly fixed with cement.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.25525, 0.05065

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 15′ 18.9″ N, 0° 3′ 2.34″ E

UTM: 31U 303262 5904725

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin and Middle English

Inscription Notes: 1. The names of the donors, Rudolph/Rudulphus Bolle and his wife -- 2. [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: 1. on the base 2. on a basin shield

Inscription Text: 1. "Orate pro animabus Radulphi Bolle [??] uxoris eius qui fieri fecerunt hoc baptisterium" 2. "In God is al godnes"

Inscription Source: Cox & Harvey (1907: 184); Pevsner & al. (1989: 666); Barton (2008)

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989