Witham-on-the-Hill No. 1 / Witham le Hill / Witham on the Hill

INFORMATION

FontID: 01602WYT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Witham-on-the-Hill, Bourne, Lincolnshire, PE10 0HT
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the A6121, 7 km WSW of Bourne, 11 km NNE of Stamford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Beltisloe
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Transitional
There are five entries for Witham [on the Hill] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TF0516/witham-on-the-hill/] [accessed 29 January 2018], one of which, lorded in 1066 by Ulf (Fenman), and by Berewold; Gilbert of Ghent in 1086, reports a church in it. Paley (1844) mentions a baptismal font of low cylindrical shape decorated with sculpture here. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Transitional period. [NB: we have not been able to locate this font inside the church; cf. Index entry for Witham-on-the-Hill No. 2 for the 17th-century font in use in this church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.7372, -0.441
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 44′ 13.92″ N, 0° 26′ 27.6″ W
UTM: 30U 672761 5846108

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: cylindrical
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round