Wilsford nr. Sleaford / Wiuelesforde / Wivelesforde

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Source caption: "Church of St Mary, Wilsford"
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

view of church exterior - west view

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.:"
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

INFORMATION

Font ID: 01648WIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Wilsford, Grantham NG32 3NS, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1400 230722
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
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]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one in the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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

UTM: 30U 667655 5872451
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.9754, -0.503
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 58′ 31.44″ N, 0° 30′ 10.8″ 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=51410] [accessed 19 March 2007]
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989, p. 801