Wickenby / Wichingebi / Wichingesbi
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 May 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/105816] [accessed 26 July 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior, Ss Peter & Lawrence church, Wickenby. The first record of a church on this site appears to be about 1100AD. Today's church is a combination of C12 through to C19 alterations. The south arcade dates back to C13. The screen and distinctive ogee headed piscina are medieval. The font is believed to be of Saxon origin."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2014 by J.Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3975098] [accessed 26 July 2016]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05676WIC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Lawrence
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Lawrence
Church Location: Lissington Road, Wickenby, Lincolnshire, LN3 5AB
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located about 15 km ENE of Lincoln
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Wraggoe [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: Medieval
Font Notes:
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There are four entries for Wickenby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TF0881/wickenby/] [accessed 26 July 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. In his introduction to font covers and their locks, Paley (1884) writes: "At Wickenby, Lincolnshire, the original fastening remains, consisting of an iron bar, one end of which is thrust through a hole in an upright wooden handle in the centre of the cover, and into a staple at the side, the other end has en eyelet or loop which is padlocked to a similar staple on the opposite side." Paley's text is cited in Bond, 1985 c1908. No other details of the font given. The Builder (vol. 67, Dec. 29 1894: 472] states that the font in this church "retains its ancient fastening of an iron bar across". Not listed in Lewis (1848), Cox-Harvey (1907) or Tyrrell-Green (1928). Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) mentions no font in this church.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.322851, -0.368027
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 19′ 22.27″ N, 0° 22′ 4.9″ W
UTM: 30U 675295 5911416
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. Font notes]
REFERENCES
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844
Stocker, D.A., "Fons et origo: The Symbolic Death and Resurrection of English Font Stones", I (1997b), Church Archaeology, 1997, pp. 17-25; p. 20ff