Coates-by-Stow / Cotes-by-Stow
Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
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Results: 9 records
view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Fairweather, 2002
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Peter Fairweather of Lincoln
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Edith, Coates by Stow. But for a farmhouse, barns and trees, the church of St Edith stands alone and well off the beaten track. The church contains the only surviving Rood Loft in Lincolnshire. It is of Norman origin, having brass plates and other memorials of the BUTLER family and a bust of Brian COOKE of Doncaster, who died in 1653 at age 80. The Church was restored in 1883 and seats about 80."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/429347] [accessed 21 October 2018]
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view of church exterior - south portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/429355] [accessed 21 October 2018]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 December 2005 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/89184] [accessed 21 October 2018]
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view of church interior - chancel - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis - east side
Scene Description: Source caption: "Rood Screen, St Edith's church, Coates. Looking towards the blocked west arch."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 December 2012 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3264187] [accessed 21 October 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the font in the foreground, left side, covered in flowers and foliage
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ian S, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 May 2018 by Ian S [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5886773] [accessed 21 October 2018]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 14 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5157563] [accessed 21 October 2018]
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view of font context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Fairweather, 2002
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Peter Fairweather of Lincoln
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Coates by Stow, St. Edith's Church: Norman tub font raised on a later stone platform"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5157566] [accessed 21 October 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 04778COA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Edith
Church Patron Saints: St. Edith
Church Location: Coates-by-Stow, Stow, West Lindsey LN1, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the B1241, 13 km NW of Lincoln, 3-4 km NE of Stow [NB: there is no village now but the church still exists].
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Aveland?
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, N side, behind the last bench
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: Our gratitude to Peter Fairweather of Lincoln for the photographs of this font - Peter reports that the font "has been axe dressed" (e-mail to BSI dated March 2002).
Church Notes: The interior of this little church is much as it was in medieval times and has some rare features. Described by Peter Fairweather as "A most beautiful little Norman church, full of nothing but peace and atmosphere! One of my favourites in Lincs." (e-mail to BSI dated March 2002)
Font Notes:
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No individual entry for Coates-by-Stow found in the Domesday survey. Hutton (1957) describes and illustrates a plain cylindrical font of the Norman period here; it has some damage on the upper rim. It sits on a square base which is obviously ill-matched to the base and probably the work of the local mason. There is a flat octagonal lid made of wood with some ornamentation (date unknown). An illustration of this font, in the context of a study of the rood-screen at St Edith's, appears in Charles Tracey's chaper in the book 'Cardiff: architecture and archaeology in the medieval diocese of Llandaff' (2006).
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.337, -0.63774
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 20′ 13.2″ N, 0° 38′ 15.86″ W
UTM: 30U 657282 5912362
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one (basin only)
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. Font notes]
REFERENCES
Hutton, Graham, English Parish Churches, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976