Utterby
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - 8
Scene Description: one at the top and another at the bottom of the pedestal of the base
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Andrew's Church, Utterby. Grade II listed. Constructed of iron and chalk, dated back to 14th century. The tower is 14th century and has three stages and a parapet. Pevsner described the church as “rough looking”. The porch was probably added in the 15th century and is noted for its archway of whimsical carvings including a Green Man, a man with a monkey on a string and an ape bearing away a child. In the chancel is a C14 piscina with cusped ogee head and on the north side a square aumbry and statue bracket. On the north wall is an important monument in sunken relief which portrays Gilbert de Cumberworth with his hands clasped in prayer. Originally there would have been strips of brass inlaid into the carving. The folds on his sleeves and the metal bands around his wrists indicate that Gilbert was a deacon, a man of some substance and that, as was the tradition of the times, he was probably the second son of a wealthy family."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 July 2012 by J.Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3041362] [accessed 24 November 2017]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 July 2012 by J.Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3041369] [accessed 24 November 2017]
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view of font
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Image Source: illustration in Bond (1908)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05663UTT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Church Lane, Utterby, Lincolnshire, LN11 0TH
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the A16, 2 km N of Fotherby, 7 km NW of Louth, 18 km S of Grimsby, about 45 km ENE of Lincoln
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W of the W pillar of the nave arcade
Century and Period: 14th century [re-cut?], Decorated [altered]
Church Notes: present church ca. 1340
Despite its name roots, Utterby is not found in the Domesday survey. Baptismal font here noted in in Fowler (1874). Sutton (1898) writes: "The font, very simple in design, is placed against the westermost pillar of the arcade. The stone upon which it stands is deeply hollowed out on one side, apparently as a drain for the water." Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as an octagonal mounted baptismal font; the basin has a large blind quatrefoil window on each side; the chamfer is plain. The pedestal is also octagonal and plain except for two thin mouldings, one at each ende of the upper section; the lower base splays out and is also plain. The font stands on a plinth that is about the size of the lower base; on the one side it prolongs as a rectangular "kneeling- or priest-stone"; on the side opposite the wall of the church the plinth has a drain hole. This drain "instead of passing into the ground, is an open channel leading into the churchyard" (ibid.) Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. C14 and recut, with a drain."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
53.41944,
-0.036267
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
53° 25′ 9.98″ N,
0° 2′ 10.56″ W
UTM: 30U 696939 5923023
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: outputs into an open channel on the ground leading to the churchyard
REFERENCES
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Fowler, James T., "The Church of St. James, Louth, and Other Churches Visited by the Society on the 26th and 27th of June, 1873", XII, 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, 1874, pp. 1-21; r["References"]
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989
Sutton, A.F., "A Description of the Churches Visited in the Excursion from Louth, July 6th & 7th, 1897", XXIV, 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, 1898, pp. 95-114; r["References"]