Alvingham No. 2 / Aluingeham / Aluingham / Alvingeham
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Adelwold's and St Mary's churches, Alvingham. St Adelwold's church is on the left (locked), St Mary's on the right (redundant)." The two churches share the same yard; not far from here is the site of the medieval priory of Alvingham.
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INFORMATION
FontID: 09971ALV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Adelwold
Church Patron Saints: St. Adelwold
Church Location: Alvingham, Louth, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located just W of the Louth Canal, 6-8 km NE of Louth and the A16 -- it shares cemetery with St. Mary's
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Louthesk
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century [re-used], Early English [altered]
Cognate Fonts: Same case of old basin on new base in North Cockerington [adjacent]
Font Notes:
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Fowler (1874) writes: "A reversed capital of a pillar serves as a base for the font, the bowl is octagonal in form and quite plain". Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. A reversed octagonal capital of the C13." Listed in Stocker (1997) as one of a group of "early font bowls set within bases of successors". The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF3679191317] notes: "Parish church. c.1300, C15, C16, 1806, restored 1933. [...] C13 octagonal font on richly moulded base and plinth."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.4012, 0.057
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 24′ 4.32″ N, 0° 3′ 25.2″ E
UTM: 31U 304355 5920938
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
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. 8
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; p. 24