Barnoldby-le-Beck / Bernelby / Bernulfbi
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view of church exterior - south portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "Transitional doorway South door of St.Helen's church, just about a pointed arch with single chamfer, of c1200 and Transitional architectural phase from Romanesque to Gothic"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2008
Image Source: edited detail of a digital phtograph 29 May 2008 by Ricahrd Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/822353] [accessed 29 July 2021]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St.Helen's church, Barnoldby-le-Beck, Lincs. Much restored with Norman origins and some medieval glass."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2006
Image Source: edited detail of a digital phtograph 24 January 2006 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/111428] [accessed 29 July 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5
INFORMATION
FontID: 01591BAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Helen
Church Patron Saints: St. Helena
Church Location: Church Lane, Barnoldby le Beck, Grimsby DN37 0BA, UK -- Tel.: +44 1472 822172
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A18, about 8 km SW of Grimsby
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Haverstoe
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century [base] -- 14th - 15th century [basin], Medieval / composite
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Barnoldby [-le-Beck] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TA2303/barnoldby-le-beck/] [accessed 29 July 2021] nut it mentions neither priest not church in it. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. Intersected arches, but not Norman. With its flat cutting and absence of capitals probably C13." Listed in Stocker (1997) as one of seven examples in Licolnshire where "a font bowl is [...] recorded as having been set upside down to provide the base for a successor [14th-15th-century]". The entry for this church in British Listed Buildings [Listing NGR: TA2355503311] notes: "Parish church. Late C13 south door; C13-C14 arcades, aisles and tower; C14-C15 nave clerestory and tower parapet. Re-roofed and chancel rebuilt 1839. Restorations of 1892 [...] C12 circular font bowl in south aisle. Present font has C13 circular bowl with intersecting arches on later cylindrical column base."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.512, -0.1383
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53°30'43"N, 0°8'17"W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989
Stocker, D.A., "Fons et origo: The Symbolic Death and Resurrection of English Font Stones", I (1997b), Church Archaeology, 1997, pp. 17-25; p. 17ff