Old Somerby / Old Somerby by Grantham / Somerby by Grantham / Old Somerby nr. Grantham / Summerdebi

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design element - patterns - tracery - varied

Scene Description: notice also the large new stone repair to the upper rim

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph by Teresa & Stuart Pask [http://pask.org.uk/Pask-p/somerby-baptismal-font.jpg] [accessed 3 August 2021]

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view of basin and cover - upper view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Baptismal Font at St. Mary Magdalene's Church, Somerby (near Grantham), Lincolnshire, England"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph by Teresa & Stuart Pask [http://pask.org.uk/Pask-p/somerby-baptismal-font.jpg] [accessed 3 August 2021]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary Magdalene parish church, Old Somerby, Lincolnshire, seen from the southeast in snow"

Image Source: digital photograoh 28 December 2005 by Acabashi [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:At_Old_Somerby,_Lincolnshire_-_St_Mary_Magdalene's_Church,_-_Dec_2005.JPG] [accessed 3 August 2021]

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St.Mary Magdalen's Church, Old Somerby"

Image Source: digital photograph 9 August 2012 by JThomas [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3076503] [accessed 3 August 2021]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01627SOM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalen

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary Magdalene

Church Location: Church Ln, Old Somerby, Grantham NG33 4AF, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off the B1176, E of the A52-B6403 junction, 6 km ESE of Grantham, in S Lincs.

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln

Historical Region: Hundred of Threo

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 14th century (late?), Decorated? / Early Perpendicular?

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are five entries for [Old] Somerby in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK9533/old-somerby/] [accessed 3 August 2021], one of which in the land of Walter of Aincourt, reports "1 church. 1.0 church lands" in it. Described in Trollope (1876a): "The font is a good one of the fourteenth century, of an octangular tub-form, each face being enriched by traceried panels." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. Late C14, octagonal, with tracery panels." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK9648333962] notes: "Parish Church; C12, C13, C14, C15 with C18 and 1876 alterations and additions Late C 14 octagonal font with traceried designs to 6 panels."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.8944, -0.568

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 53' 39.8" N, 0° 34' 4.8" W

UTM: 30U 663597 5863293

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decorations and ring handle; Victorian?

REFERENCES

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989

Trollope, Edward, "Notes on the Churches, &c., visited by the Society from Grantham on the 16th and 17th June, 1875", XIII, part I, 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, 1876, pp. 1-28; r["References"]