Great Limber / Limber Magna / Limberge / Linberge / Linbergham

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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with bases - 8

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 - foliage - stiff-leaf

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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 - roll moulding

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 - roll moulding

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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view of church exterior - southeast view

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 east

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view of church interior - looking west

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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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."

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

FontID: 09942LIM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Church Ln, Great Limber, Grimsby DN37 8JR, UK -- Tel.: +44 1652 680414

Country Name: England

Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands

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

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 13th century [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Church Notes: the VCH mentions a possible medieval priory here, but it could well have been just a monastic grange instead

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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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.5613, -0.287

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 33′ 40.68″ N, 0° 17′ 13.2″ W

UTM: 30U 679681 5938137

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-. Accessed: 2019-05-16 00:00:00. 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; r["References"]

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989

Stocker, D.A., "Fons et origo: The Symbolic Death and Resurrection of English Font Stones", I (1997b), Church Archaeology, 1997, pp. 17-25; r["References"]