Wold Newton nr. Louth / Neutone / Newton-upon-the-Wolds

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."