Normanby-by-Spital / Normanby by Spital / Normanby nr. Spital / Normanebi / Normaneston / Normanestou

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design element - motifs - piping - 4

Scene Description: giving the basin the approximate shape of a mortar

Image Source: Peter Fairweather [www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]

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symbol - shield - blank

Scene Description: seen here on the facing left side

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 15 May 2016 by Jules & Jenny [www.flickr.com/photos/78914786@N06/26104266957] [accessed 27 December 2018]

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view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2011 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2622209] [accessed 27 December 2018]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Normanby is situated along Ermine Street, and several Roman Villas have been discovered nearby. The church dates from the 12th century onwards, and was restored in 1890 by Goddard & Sons. There is a western tower, nave with clerestory and north and south aisles, and a chancel. The 12th century three stage tower has an embattled parapet with pinnacles and (very weathered) gargoyles. [...] The church was made redundant in 1975, and is now in the care of The Churches Conservation Trust."

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 15 May 2016 by Jules & Jenny [www.flickr.com/photos/78914786@N06/26104258117] [accessed 27 December 2018]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "The nave has a three-bay Norman arcade with circular piers and finely carved capitals. The south arcade was built slightly later, circa 1230, and has stiff leaf capitals. It was rebuilt in 1890. The chancel arch is of a similar date. On the south side there is a blocked a squint. The clerestory was added later,the nave roof previously had a steep pitch, and evidence of this can be seen on the east wall of the tower. It is thought there was once an apse attached to the chancel, and also a north chapel.[...] The church was made redundant in 1975, and is now in the care of The Churches Conservation Trust."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 May 2016 by Jules & Jenny [www.flickr.com/photos/78914786@N06/40082204395] [accessed 27 December 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - north arcade - capital

Scene Description: Source caption: "Norman capital. Elaborate capital of c1200 in the north arcade of St.Peter's church".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 May 2008 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/905613] [accessed 27 December 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - south arcade - capital

Scene Description: Source caption: "Early 13th century stiff leaf capital in the south arcade of St.Peter's church".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 May 2008 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/905618] [accessed 27 December 2018]

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view of font

Image Source: Peter Fairweather [www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Normanby by Spital, St Peter's church, Font".

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 15 May 2016 by Jules & Jenny [www.flickr.com/photos/78914786@N06/26104266957] [accessed 27 December 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09447NOR

Church/Chapel: Church of St. Peters [redundant]

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: 3 Main St, Normanby-by-Spital, Market Rasen LN8 2HE, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (SE) the A15-A631 junction, about 20 km NNE of Lincoln

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln

Historical Region: Hundred of Aslacoe

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 14th - 16th century[basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Peter Fairweather of www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk, for bringing this object to our attention and for the photograph of the same.

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There are four entries for Normanby [-by-Spital] [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF0088/normanby-by-spital/] [accessed 27 December 2018], one of which, in the lordship and tenancy of Ivo Tallboys in 1086, reports a priest and a church in it. Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) note: "Font. A re-used kitchen mortar." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF0011688110] notes: "Parish church, now vested in Redundant Churches Fund. C12, c.1200, C13, C14, C15, and restoration of 1890. [...] The font is late C12 in the shape of a mortar with 4 vertical bands, one of which terminates in a shield; it stands on a C19 base." The baptismal font in the now redundant church of St. Peter, near Spital, is believed locally to have been originally a kitchen mortar; the shape of the roughly hemispherical basin with 90-degree angle protrusions does somewhat resemble the common shape of the traditional mortar and, if it were one, it would not be the first one to have been adapted for liturgical use, although, unlike most mortars, the knobs here continue down the sides as thick mouldings, one of them ending shortly about mid-side; the odd thing about this object is that the top of one of the protrusions on the basin is actually a blank shield, a most unlikely motif to be found in a medieval mortar [NB: it would be interesting to find out whether there is a central drain in the inner bowl]; this basin is now mounted on a pedestal and a lower base or plinth, both of which are quadrangular, plain and modern [cf. supra]. It is not a common design for a font].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.3804, -0.4964

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 22′ 49.44″ N, 0° 29′ 47.04″ W

UTM: 30U 666522 5917509

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: three

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989