Great Limber / Limber Magna / Limberge / Linberge / Linbergham
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Font, St peter's Church, Great Limber. A 14th century octagonal bowl on octagonal base with 8 shafts and late 12th century stiff leaf capitals."
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2011 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2664958] [accessed 16 May 2019]
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design element - motifs - diaper
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2011
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view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ian S, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 May 2018 by Ian S [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5800217] [accessed 16 May 2019]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bill Henderson, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 April 2013 by Bill Henderson [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3422788] [accessed 16 May 2019]
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view of church interior - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ian S, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 May 2008 by Ian S [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5800224] [accessed 16 May 2019]
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design element - motifs - foliage - stiff-leaf
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2011 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2664958] [accessed 16 May 2019]
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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with bases - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2011 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2664958] [accessed 16 May 2019]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 09942LIM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: the VCH mentions a possible medieval priory here, but it could well have been just a monastic grange instead
Church Address: Church Ln, Great Limber, Grimsby DN37 8JR, UK -- Tel.: +44 1652 680414
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A18, 13 km W of Grimsby. 12-13 E of Brigg
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Yarborough
Additional Comments: recycled font / composite font ([cf. FontNotes])
Font Notes:
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There are five entries for [Great] Limber [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TA1308/great-limber/] [accessed 16 May 2019] none of which mentions cleric or church in it. On the occasion of a visit to Great Limber by the Lincoln Diocesan Architectural Society in June 1878 the following was reported: "The font was certainly a very handsome one, but, like other other portions of this fine old church, has been strangely treated, for its base, richly adorned with carved foliage, now stands upside down." Listed in Stocker (1997) as one of a group of baptismal fonts in which "a reversed bowl [of earlier date] is suspected, given the present day appearance of the font". Described in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Bowl with dogtooth frieze, i.e. C13, standing on a splendid stiff-leaf capital reversed. It was made for a pier with octagonal core and eight shafts such as those at St Mary, Barton-upon-Humber." The entry for this church in Historic England [
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 679681 5938137
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.5613, -0.287
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 33′ 40.68″ N, 0° 17′ 13.2″ W
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 and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; modern
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Bishop Suffragan of Nottingham, "The Churches of Great Grimsby and other Parishes, visited by the Society on the 18th and 19th June, 1878", XIV, part II, 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, 1878, pp. 152-169; p. 161
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989, p. 331
- Stocker, D.A., "Fons et origo: The Symbolic Death and Resurrection of English Font Stones", I (1997b), Church Archaeology, 1997, pp. 17-25; p. 17ff, 24