Horbling No. 1 / Horbelinge / Orbelinge

CC-BY-SA-2.0

Results: 17 records

Click to view images and/or subjects

B01: symbol - shield - emblem - Christ - the instruments of the Passion - cross

Scene Description: a/p identification in Simpson (1828)

B02: symbol - shield - emblem - Christ - the instruments of the Passion - scourge

Scene Description: a/p identification in Simpson (on the first panel from the left in his illustration)

Image Source: digital image of an engraving by Robert Roberts from a drawing by F. Simpson Jr. in Simpson (1828: 55)

Copyright Instructions: PD

B03: symbol - shield - emblem - Christ - the instruments of the Passion - three nails

Scene Description: a/p identification in Simpson (on the second panel from the left in his illustration)

Image Source: digital image of an engraving by Robert Roberts from a drawing by F. Simpson Jr. in Simpson (1828: 55)

Copyright Instructions: PD

B04: symbol - shield - emblem - Christ - the instruments of the Passion - hammer, pincers

Scene Description: seen here in the left panel

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 6 June 2015 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4516258] [accessed 27 November 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

B05: symbol - shield - emblem - Christ - the instruments of the Passion - crown of thorns

Scene Description: seen here in the centre panel

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 6 June 2015 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4516258] [accessed 27 November 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

B06: symbol - shield - emblem - Christ - the instruments of the Passion - seamless robe

Scene Description: Simpson mentions "the coat or shirt" -- seen here in the right panel

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 6 June 2015 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4516258] [accessed 27 November 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

B07: unidentified

Scene Description: this side was reported in Simpson as being against a column and therefore inaccessible

B08: symbol - shield - emblem - Christ - the instruments of the Passion - lance

Scene Description: Simpson describes it as "a spear and some other weapon", probably the pole on which the sponge was reaised to Christ, since it often appears represented together with the former

design element - architectural - window - Gothic - cusped - 8

Scene Description: one on each panel, framing the shield)

Image Source: digital image of an engraving by Robert Roberts from a drawing by F. Simpson Jr. in Simpson (1828: 55)

Copyright Instructions: PD

design element - motifs - ball-flower - 8

Scene Description: one at each angle of the underbowl chamfer

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 6 June 2015 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4516258] [accessed 27 November 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

design element - motifs - floral - 16

Scene Description: a combination of several types, all around the upper rim side

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 6 June 2015 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4516258] [accessed 27 November 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 64

Scene Description: eight of them per panel, at the tip of the cusps

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 6 June 2015 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4516258] [accessed 27 November 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "The church dates from the late 12th century onwards, although a church was mentioned in the Domesday book. Originally there was a cruciform Norman church, parts of which still remain. The church could have been an ex Anglo-Saxon Minster or new Collegiate foundation. There is a nave with north and south aisles, north and south transepts with crossing tower, chancel and south porch. The west front dates from circa 1170 and was remodelled in the 15th century. The nave was constructed in the first half of the 13th century, the north and south arcades are asymmetrical. There is a set of eight windows in the late 15th century clerestory. There are four-bay arcades, the north on hexagonal piers the south has one round and two quatrefoil piers. The chancel dates from the 12th century, and unusually has a sedilia with a single round arch. The crossing tower was remodelled around 1330, and the tower has battlements and pinnacles and several gargoyles. The arches of the crossing are leaning out of line, and an attempt was made in the 14th century to repair them. This can easily been seen when looking at the nave towards the chancel. The north transept has a 15th century tomb recess with the arms of Sir Thomas La Launde, died 1470. This may also be part of an Easter Sepulchre. The church has several monuments with brass plate designed by Pugin. The octagonal font is from the 15th century and has instruments of the passion on each face. There is a two manual organ by Binns, which was removed from Bailgate Methodist Church, Lincoln."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 June 2015 by Jules & Jenny [www.flickr.com/photos/78914786@N06/18490276089] [accessed 27 November 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0

view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "There is a nave with north and south aisles, north and south transepts with crossing tower, chancel and south porch. The west front dates from circa 1170 and was remodelled in the 15th century. The nave was constructed in the first half of the 13th century, the north and south arcades are asymmetrical. There is a set of eight windows in the late 15th century clerestory. There are four-bay arcades, the north on hexagonal piers the south has one round and two quatrefoil piers. The chancel dates from the 12th century, and unusually has a sedilia with a single round arch. The crossing tower was remodelled around 1330, and the tower has battlements and pinnacles and several gargoyles. The arches of the crossing are leaning out of line, and an attempt was made in the 14th century to repair them. This can easily been seen when looking at the nave towards the chancel. The north transept has a 15th century tomb recess with the arms of Sir Thomas La Launde, died 1470. This may also be part of an Easter Sepulchre. "

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 June 2015 by Jules & Jenny [www.flickr.com/photos/ww.flickr.com/photos/78914786@N06/18488766830] [accessed 27 November 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0

view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Font, St Andrew's church, Horbling. Carved with shields showing instruments of the passion."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 June 2015 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4516258] [accessed 27 November 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "St.Andrew's font. 14th century base with a 15th century octagonal bowl carved with symbols of the passion in St.Andrew's church."

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 6 June 2015 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4516258] [accessed 27 November 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 April 2015 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4423330] [accessed 27 November 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 01582HOR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: Horbling, Sleaford NG34 0PJ, UK -- Tel.: 01778 341467

Country Name: England

Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off the B1177, just S of the A52, 6 km NE of Falkingham, 24-25 km E of Grantham, about 45 km N of Peterborough

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln

Historical Region: Hundred of Aveland

Font Location in Church: Inside the church; reported against a column in Simpson's time, ca. 1828

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are six entries for Horbling [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF1135/horbling/] [accessed 27 November 2018], one of which reports a church in it. Simpson (1828) writes: "The stem of this Font has, we think, at some period undergone alteration; its sides are not placed parallel with those of the bowl and the two torus mouldings which run down it have no kind of finish to them. Shields, having on them the instruments of the Crucifixion, form a frequent ornament to Fonts. There are here eight shields; on the first is the dross; on the second (the first of our plate) the scourges; on the third, the nails; on the fourth, the hammer and pincers; on the fifth, the crown of thorns; on the sixth, the coat and shirt; the seventh, placed against a column and therefore not visible; on the eighth, a spear and some other weapon. The lining of lead is gone." The upper rim side shows a row of floral motif; the shields are framed in Gothic windows; the chamfer has ball-flower motifs at the angles. The whole font appears raised on a wider octagonal plinth. Paley (1844), in the context of child baptism by full immersion, notes that "Horbling and Dembleby, Lincolnshire, are extremely small and probably modern fonts formed out of a stem or shaft." Cox & Harvey (1907) list it as a font from the Decorated period in one place (ibid., p. 207) and as Perpendicular in another (ibid., p. 208). Sutton (1904) and Stocker (1997) indicate that the parts of the font date from different periods. Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Octagonal, with cusped fields. Shields in them with the Instruments of the Passion." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF1188735179] notes: "Parish church. Late C12, mid C13, c.1330, late C15, restored 1852, 1877 and 1879. [...] C14 octagonal pedestal of font with traceried panels, each with trefoiled head and with angels and foliage in spandrels. C15 octagonal font with symbols of the instruments of the Passion on each face."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.902431, -0.338669

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 54′ 8.75″ N, 0° 20′ 19.21″ W

UTM: 30U 678988 5864733

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Rim Thickness: 7.5-8 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 58.75 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 74.5 cm*

Basin Depth: 35 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 110 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Simpson (1828: 55)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat, with crenellated rim and acorn finial

REFERENCES

Le Patrimoine des communes de la Seine-Martine, Charenton-le-Pont: FLOHIC, 1997

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

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

Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844

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

Stocker, D.A., "Fons et origo: The Symbolic Death and Resurrection of English Font Stones", I (1997b), Church Archaeology, 1997, pp. 17-25; r["References"]

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"]