Sibsey / Sibolci

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Margaret of Antioch church, Sibsey"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J.Hannan-Briggs, 2012

Image Source: digital photograpgh 22 April 2012 by J.Hannan-Briggs [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2919232] [accessed 15 February 2025]

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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: Source caption: "The tower of St Margaret's Church, Sibsey"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Neil Theasby, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 17 September 2020 by Neil Theasby [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6607068] [accessed 15 February 2025]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior, St Margaret's church, Sibsey"

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Margaret's Church, Sibsey"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Iand S, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph 9 November 2018 by Ian S [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5979076] [accessed 15 February 2025]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "St.Margaret's font and tower arch. Early English (13th century) tower arch and an octagonal font of indeterminate age, most likely an 18th century creation"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph 3 February 2009 by Richard Croft [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1146865] [accessed 15 February 2025]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01609SIB
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Location: Saint Margaret's Church, Sibsey, Boston PE22 0RX, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1205 750591
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located at the A16 and B1184 crossroads, M of Boston, in the district of East Lindsey
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Bolingbroke [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 16th century (?),
Church Notes: church reported in the Domesday survey of 1086
There is an entry for Sibsey [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF3550/sibsey/] [accessed 15 February 2025]; it reports a church in it. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period [cf. infra]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF3544050743] notes: "Parish church. C12, C13, C14, C15, 1699, restored 1840. Chancel rebuilt and aisles and nave partly rebuilt 1855 by Kirk, repaired 1880 [...] Probably C16 octagonal ashlar font. The base, decorated with stylised fleuron, is surmounted by 8 small piers which support the bowl decorated with intersecting tracery and stylised fleuron."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.037137, 0.016272
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 2′ 13.69″ N, 0° 0′ 58.58″ E
UTM: 31U 299958 5880565

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal pyramid with Latin cross finial; probably modern