Grimsby No. 1 / Great Grimsby / Grimesby
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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2008 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/858873] [accessed 29 April 2019]
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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases - 8
Scene Description: around a broad central pillar
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2008 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/858873] [accessed 29 April 2019]
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view of church exterior - south portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "West Doorway. The earliest part of St.James church, early 13th century Romanesque doorway, where the rest of the church is Gothic".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 December 2008 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1072769] [accessed 29 April 2019]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julian P Guffogg, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 November 2015 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4753660] [accessed 29 April 2019]
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view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julian P Guffogg, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 November 2015 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4753849] [accessed 29 April 2019]
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view of church interior - looking west
![the font and cover are partially visible in the right [north] aisle, east end](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1190502004_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the font and cover are partially visible in the right [north] aisle, east end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 December 2008 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1071746] [accessed 29 April 2019]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2008 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/858873] [accessed 29 April 2019]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2008 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/858886] [accessed 29 April 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01606GRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Grimsby Minster [since 2010] / Parish Church of St. James
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Church Location: St James Square, Grimsby DN31 1EP, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A136, in Grimsby town centre, near the railway station, 25 km SE of Hull
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Bradley
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century [basin only] -- 13th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church Notes: church here documented by 1114
Font Notes:
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There are four entries for Grimsby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TA2609/grimsby/] [accessed 29 April 2019] one of which reports a priest and a church in it. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 entry reads: "the font is of large dimensions, and in the early English style". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989), however, note: "Font. C13 base of nine supports. C14 bowl with simple arched panels."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.563792, -0.08936
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 33′ 49.65″ N, 0° 5′ 21.7″ W
UTM: 30U 692756 5938931
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: yes; counterweight
Notes: plain octagonal pyramidal cover, with acorn finial; it has a lifting mechanism
REFERENCES
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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989