Ashby-cum-Fenby / Achesbi [Domesday] / Aschebi [Domesday]

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view of font and cover - west side

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 3 June 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/104768] [accessed 21 July 2019]

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design element - motifs - panel - quatrefoiled

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 3 June 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/104768] [accessed 21 July 2019]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 June 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/104763] [accessed 21 July 2019]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Peter's Parish Church Ashby Cum Fenby. The tower was restored in 1886."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 April 2017 by Martin Dawes [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5373850] [accessed 21 July 2019]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: with the late-medieval font in the foreground, right [south] side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 June 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/104768] [accessed 21 July 2019]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 01629ASH

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, S side

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter

Church Address: Ashby cum Fenby, Grimsby DN37 0QP, UK

Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A18-B1203 crossroads, 2 km SSW of Waltham, 8-9 km SSW of Grimsby

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln

Historical Region: Hundred of Haverstoe

Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 11th-12thC original church here)

Font Notes: Click to view

There are three entries for Ashby [-cum-Fenby] [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TA2500/ashby-cum-fenby/] [accessed 21 July 2019] none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports: "an elegant octagnal font, supported on a clustered pedestal, and panelled in quatrefoil". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TA2545400949] notes: "Parish church. C12 nave, C13 tower; nave arcade, north aisle and chancel rebuilt in C17, the latter incorporating C14 windows. Restored 1845, tower repaired 1886, west end restored 1910, tower restored 1959. [...] C14-C15 font with octagonal bowl carved with mouchettes and quatrefoils in circles, shafted column and moulded base."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 691715 5930698

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.49026, -0.1101

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 29′ 24.94″ N, 0° 6′ 36.36″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 208
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, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=50762] [accessed 11 January 2007]