Willoughby nr. Alford / Wilgebi
Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012
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angel
Scene Description: on at least one panel -- seen here on the east side of the font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 29 July 2012 by J.Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3060077] [accessed 12 February 2015]
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coat of arms - unidentified
Scene Description: at least two of them, on opposite sides of the font (north and south)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 29 July 2012 by J.Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3060077] [accessed 12 February 2015]
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symbol - shield - hanging shield - blank - 4
Scene Description: one on every other panel of the octagonal basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 29 July 2012 by J.Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3060077] [accessed 12 February 2015]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 February 2009 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1161110] [accessed 12 February 2015]
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view of font and cover - northeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Fairweather, 2004
Image Source: Digital photograph supplied by Peter Fairweather, of www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover - southeast side
Scene Description: Source caption: "Font, St Helena's church, Willoughby. John Smith, founder of Virginia was baptised in the church in 1580. He established Jamestown in 1607 - the first British Colony in North America. His father was a yeoman farmer, a tenant of Lord Willoughby d’Eresby."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 July 2012 by J.Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3060077] [accessed 12 February 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 06236WIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Helen / St. Helena's
Church Patron Saints: St. Helena
Church Location: Church Lane, Willoughby, Lincolnshire LN13 9SX
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 6 km SSE of Alford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Calcewath [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Peter Fairweather, of www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk, for the photograph of this font.
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for this Willoughby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF4771/willoughby/] [accessed 12 February 2015], one of which mentions a church and church lands in it. A font here is described in Pevsner (1989): "Font. Octagonal, with shields and an angel, much restored." [no mention of the font is made in Pevsner's earlier ed. of 1964]. English Heritage [Listing NGR: TF4734471963] (1967) dates the font to the 15th century. The font consists of an octagonal basin with tapering sides decorated with four blank hanging shields on alternate faces, the other four sides with an angel, charged, shield, etc.; plain underbowl chamfer; octagonal pedestal base with top and bottom mouldings; octagonal lower base with graded mouldings; octagonal plinth with kneeling extension on the west side. Octagonal wooden cover with moulded sides and know handle/finial.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.22373, 0.204944
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 13′ 25.43″ N, 0° 12′ 17.8″ E
UTM: 31U 313415 5900806
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, with moulded sides, knob finial/handle
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989