Louth / Lude
Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
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Results: 13 records
design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 16
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 8 October 2011 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2660757] [accessed 22 April 2019]
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design element - architectural - buttress - 8
Scene Description: most of them damaged
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 8 October 2011 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2660757] [accessed 22 April 2019]
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 8 October 2011 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2660757] [accessed 22 April 2019]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 8 October 2011 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2660757] [accessed 22 April 2019]
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design element - motifs - vine
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 8 October 2011 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2660757] [accessed 22 April 2019]
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view of basin - west side
Scene Description: the modern alabaster font; the west panel shows the Temptation and Fall, Adam and Eve's pudenda conveniently cover by inscribed scrolls
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5141289] [accessed 22 April 2019]
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view of church exterior - north view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St James' church, Louth. The tallest parish church spire in the UK at 295 feet, which was built 1501-1515 and cost £305 to build!"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2015 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4605462] [accessed 22 April 2019]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St James' church, Louth. Showing the tall early 16th C. spire."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2015 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4605470] [accessed 22 April 2019]
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view of church exterior in context - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 March 2016 by Chris [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4862313] [accessed 22 April 2019]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: with the modern font in the foreground
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 June 2015 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4593062] [accessed 22 April 2019]
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view of font - west side
Scene Description: the modern alabaster font; the west panel shows the Temptation and Fall; on the underbowl are angel demi-figures holding up scrolls
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5141287] [accessed 22 April 2019]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the 15thC font is now located in the north aisle.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 October 2011 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2660757] [accessed 22 April 2019]
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view of font in context - southwest side
Scene Description: Source caption: "St.James' font. Staffordshire alabaster font from James Fowler's restoration of 1868-9 replacing the 15th century font LinkExternal link Its panels shows scenes of Christ's baptism, crucifixion, Adam & Eve and Noah's Ark".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 March 2008 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/ww.geograph.org.uk/photo/860360] [accessed 22 April 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 09892LOU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James
Church Patron Saints: St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Church Location: Westgate, Louth LN11 9YD, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the B1200, E of the A16, 35-40 km ENE of Lincoln
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Louthesk
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of the N aisle
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church Notes: original church 11thC; re-built 13th, 15thC
Font Notes:
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There is an netry for Louth [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF3287/louth/] [accessed 22 April 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) note two fonts in this church: the one now located at the west end of the north aisle: "Found in the garden. Octagonal, Perp[endicular] with a panelled stem and a lef frieze on the bowl." The font at the west end of the nave is described in Pevsner & al. (ibid.) as "1867 by G.F. Bodley [i.e., George Frederick Bodley (1827-1907), Victorian church architect], alabaster, with crockted ogees around the stem." Described in the Parish' web site [www.stjameschurchlouth.com] as the original 15th century baptismal font that "was recovered from the rectory garden and returned to its proper use" during the repairs done in the 1980s. [NB: the 19th-century font is not listed in this Index on account of its age].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.3666, -0.008
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 21′ 59.76″ N, 0° 0′ 28.8″ W
UTM: 30U 699063 5917226
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
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; p. 1-21
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989