Wold Newton nr. Louth / Neutone / Newton-upon-the-Wolds
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "All Hallows' church, Wold Newton, Lincs. An idyllic rural setting for All Hallows' church on the hill above Wold Newton, approachable only on foot and seen here surrounded by snowdrops in February. The church is by James Fowler in 1862 with an apsidal chancel and a wonderful bell-turret with spiralet. Architectural fragments scattered throughout, reputedly from Bardney Abbey and other dissolved religious houses in Lincolnshire. The font at least is Wold Newton original ... Decorated with an inscription recognising its donors."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 February 2006 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/127126] [accessed 24 February 2015]
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view of church exterior - south porch - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Sheela-na-gig. This ancient carved stone, set in the porch of James Fowler's 1862 church, is not mentioned in Pevsner, though he does mention stone fragments, including one from Bardney Abbey."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jon Holland, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 April 2008 by Jon Holland [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/793809] [accessed 24 February 2015]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Allan Barton, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2010 by Allan Barton [www.flickr.com/photos/vitrearum/4707381264/in/set-72157624156397891] [accessed 24 February 2015]
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inscription
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Allan Barton, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2010 by Allan Barton [www.flickr.com/photos/vitrearum/4707381264/in/set-72157624156397891] [accessed 24 February 2015]
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design element - patterns - quatrefoiled
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Allan Barton, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2010 by Allan Barton [www.flickr.com/photos/vitrearum/4707381264/in/set-72157624156397891] [accessed 24 February 2015]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Allan Barton, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2010 by Allan Barton [www.flickr.com/photos/vitrearum/4707381264/in/set-72157624156397891] [accessed 24 February 2015]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Allan Barton, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2010 by Allan Barton [www.flickr.com/photos/vitrearum/4707381264/in/set-72157624156397891] [accessed 24 February 2015]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01574WOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1340?
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints [aka All Hallows']
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Notes: original church destroyed in a Danish invasion in the 9thC; second church reported in 1085; third church ca. 1140 [source: parish site www.woldnewton.net/files/church/a-short-history [accessed 23 February 2015]]
Church Address: Church Lane, Wold Newton, North East Lincolnshire LN8 6BP
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just W of the A18, about 12 km WNW of Louth, 15 km SW of Grimsby
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Haverstoe [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: re-cycled font (the present one: from an earlier church on the same site) -- disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for this Wold Newton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [www.domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF2496/wold-newton/] [accessed 24 February 2015], one of which, in the tenancy of the bishop of Durham St. Cuthbert's, mentions a church in it. The entry for All Saints' Newton in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 mentions "a richly-sculptured font" in it. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period; it "has a partially legible inscription in memory of its donors, John and Joan Curteys." English Heritage [Listing NGR: TF2419096784] (1967) reports: "Mid C14 font with octagonal bowl, column and base, the bowl carved with quatrefoil panels and inscribed in Latin "Pray for the souls of John and Johanna Curteys"". Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. Dec[orated], with inscriptions recording the donors. A band of horizontally placed reticulation untis cusped, i.e., really two wavy wands." The Parish guide in the Binbrook Group of Churches [www.binbrook.org.uk/wnguide.htm] [accessed 14 February 2007] notes: "The font, about the date 1340, is the only relic of this church [i.e., the second church on this site, a building begun ca. 1140] now existing. It is a fine specimen, and bears the inscription in Latin, 'Pray for the souls of John and Johanna Curtys', the probable donors."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 690489 5926434
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.452427, -0.131134
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 27′ 8.74″ N, 0° 7′ 52.08″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Location: around the rim of the basin
Inscription Text: [transcription of Latin inscription not available] [=Pray for the souls of John and Johanna Curteys]
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: Cox & Harvey (1907: 184); etc.
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 184, 207, 208
- 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=51179] [accessed 21 February 2007]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989, p. 809