Wilsford nr. Sleaford / Wiuelesforde / Wivelesforde

Results: 4 records

design element - motifs - floral - flower - in a quatrefoil

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

design element - motifs - quatrefoil

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St Mary, Wilsford"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tim Heaton, 2023

Image Source: digital photograph 4 September 2023 by Tim Heaton [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7590901][accessed 16 February 2025]

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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's Church, Wilsford is dominated by its slender Perpendicular spire. The church itself is mainly Early English, although there are two Norman piers in the nave from an earlier building.:"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Marathon, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph 18 June 2016 by Marathon [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5001341] [accessed 16 February 2025]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01648WIL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Wilsford, Grantham NG32 3NS, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1400 230722
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 6-7 km WSW of Sleaford, 11 km NE of Grantham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Threo [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
There are two entries for this Wilsford in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF0043/wilsford/] [accessed 16 February 2025] one of which, in the lordship of Godfrey of Cambrai in 1086, reports "1 church. 0.25 church lands" in it. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 remarks: "the font, which is octagonal, with concave sides, is of later date" [i.e., later than the Decorated period]. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "A concave-sided octagon; Perp[endicular]. Quatrefoils on the stem, pointed quatrefoils with flowers on the bowl."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.9754, -0.503
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 58′ 31.44″ N, 0° 30′ 10.8″ W
UTM: 30U 667655 5872451

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
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