Osbournby / Esbnebi / Osbernedebi

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches - beaded-tape motif - columns - columns with capitals and bases

Scene Description: notice the damage to the upper rim, especially on the right, where a metal anchoring for an old cover has split the stone

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 4 March 2019 by Julian P. Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6078665] [accessed 2 August 2021]

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design element - motifs - nail-head

Scene Description: a row at the upper rim side

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 4 March 2019 by Julian P. Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6078665] [accessed 2 August 2021]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: for a full description in the source caption see wwww.flickr.com/photos/jpguffogg/47306643242/ [accessed 2 August 2021]

Image Source: digital photograph 28 February 2019 by Jules & Jenny [www.flickr.com/photos/jpguffogg/47306643242/] [accessed 2 August 2021]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: for a full description caption see www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2759758] [accessed 2 August 2021]

Image Source: digital photograph 8 January 2012 by J.Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2759758] [accessed 2 August 2021]

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view of church interior - bench-end - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ss Peter & Paul church, Osbournby. A poppy head carved with foliage. Medieval."

Image Source: digital photograph 6 March 2019 by Julian P. Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6080677] [accessed 2 August 2021]

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view of church interior - bench-end - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Carved bench end, Ss Peter & Paul church, Osbournby. Depicting religious figures."

Image Source: digital photograph 6 March 2019 by Julian P. Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6080667] [accessed 2 August 2021]

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view of church interior - bench-end - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Carved bench end, Ss Peter & Paul church, Osbournby. Medieval carving depicting Adam and Eve."

Image Source: digital photograph 6 March 2019 by Julian P. Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6080656] [accessed 2 August 2021]

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view of church interior - bench-end - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Carved bench end, Ss Peter & Paul church, Osbournby. Medieval carving depicting The Crucifixion."

Image Source: digital photograph 6 March 2019 by Julian P. Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6080651] [accessed 2 August 2021]

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view of church interior - bench-end - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Detail, Church of St Peter and St Paul. The bench ends and poppy-heads are highly decorated. This bench end depicts a fox preaching to geese."

Image Source: digital photograph 2 April 2011 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2376123] [accessed 2 August 2021]

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view of church interior - bench-end - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Detail, Church of St Peter and St Paul. The bench ends and poppy-heads are highly decorated. This bench end depicts St George slaying the dragon."

Image Source: digital photograph 2 April 2011 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2376122] [accessed 2 August 2021]

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view of church interior - bench-end - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Poppy-head, Church of St Peter and St Paul. Poppy-heads (from the French word 'poupees') are finials to bench ends."

Image Source: digital photograph 2 April 2011 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2376025] [accessed 2 August 2021]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior, Ss Peter & Paul church, Osbournby. There are north and south aisles, and a number of medieval bench ends. Most of the glass is clear."

Image Source: digital photograph 4 March 2019 by Julian P. Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6078659] [accessed 2 August 2021]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an engraving by Robert Roberts of a drawing by E. Simpson Jr., in Simpson (1828: 15)

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Font, Ss Peter & Paul church, Osbournby. The Font is Norman with intersecting arches."

Image Source: digital photograph 4 March 2019 by Julian P. Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6078665] [accessed 2 August 2021]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01575OSB

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul

Church Location: 10 High St, Osbournby, Sleaford NG34 0DP, UK -- Tel.: +44 7399 548373

Country Name: England

Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A15, 8 km S of Sleaford, 17-18 km E of Grantham, about 45 km N of Peterborough up the A15

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln

Historical Region: Hundred of Aveland

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end

Century and Period: 12th century (mid?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Cognate Fonts: Simpson gives the font at nearby Ancaster as very similar to this one

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Osbournby [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF0638/osbournby/] [accessed 2 August 2021], one of which reports a church in it. Described and illustrated in Simpson (1828) as a Norman font of "about the middle of the twelfth century. The evident struggle in it between the octagon and the circle, shews that we are approaching a change of style. The top of the bowl is a very rude octagon, and this shape is gradually converted into a circle towards the bottom; the base is entirely octagonal. The whole subject is very rude and a good deal choked with yellow wash; the top is much broken [...] This Font is situated under the westernmost of the north aisle arches." Simpson's illustration (ibid.) shows the sides of the font ornamented with a blind arcade of intersecting round arches, the arch itself made of beaded-tape motif; there is a row of nail-head motif all around the upper rim side. The base is indeed octagonal and slightly wider than the basin. The whole stands on a two-step plinth. In Moule (1837) as Anglo-Norman. Noted in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 as "a large ancient font". Sutton (1904) states that the basin "has been set on a new base". Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) "Norman, drum-shaped, with intersecting arches." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF0696038134] notes: "Parish church. C12, C13, C14, C15, C18 and C19 [...] Mid C12 circular tub font with pelleted intersecting blank arcading to the sides and hobnail decoration to the rim."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.9301, -0.41

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 55' 48.4" N, 0° 24' 36.0" W

UTM: 30U 674080 5867635

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: two?

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted) [NB: the top rim is octagonal]

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 11.5 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 52.5 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 65 cm*

Basin Depth: 28.75 cm*

Basin Total Height: 45 cm*

Height of Base: 55 cm [calculated]

Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Simpson (1828: 15)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood and metal,

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal with a low-raised centre on which a stylised metal finial of scroll ribs around a central pivot

REFERENCES

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

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

Moule, Thomas, The English counties delineated; or, A topographical description of England [...], London: George Virtue, 1837 [vol. 2]

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989

Simpson, Francis, A series of ancient baptismal fonts: chronologically arranged, drwan by F. Simpson, Jun., engraved by R. Roberts, London: Septimus Prowett, 1828

Sutton, A.F., "A Description of the Churches Visited in the Excursion from Sleaford, June 30th and July 1st, 1903", XXVII, Reports and Papers Read at the Meetings of the Architectural Societies of the Diocese of Lincoln, County of York, Archdeaconry of Northampton, County of Bedford, Diocese of Worcester, County of Leicester and Town of Sheffield, 1904, pp. 92-111; r["References"]