Billingborough / Bellingeburg / Bilingeburg / Billingeburg / Bolinburg

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Plain 15th century octagonal font in St.Andrew's church".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 March 2014 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3906622] [accessed 5 March 2019]

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design element - motifs - graffito

Scene Description: Source caption: "Graffiti of a windmill on St.Andrew's 15th century font".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 March 2014 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3906634] [accessed 5 March 2019]

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view of church exterior - south view

Source caption: "There was a church at Billingborough in the 11th century, as noted in the Domesday book. The present church dates from the early 14th century onwards and was restored in the 19th century. It consists of a north west tower with spire, nave with north and south aisles, south porch, and chancel with a small organ chamber. The tower is of four stages, 150 foot high. The top of the tower is battlemented with a recessed octagonal spire with three tiers of lucarnes. Five bells were installed in 1717, and they were rehung in 1846. The nave has an embattled parapet and closely spaced three light clerestory windows from the 15th century. The porch dates from around 1312 and the door has 14th century ironwork. The nave arcades are 14th century and are of three bays to the north, and 4 to the south. The south aisle has a piscina at the east end. There is a 15th century octagonal font on a pedestal."

Scene Description: Source caption: "There was a church at Billingborough in the 11th century, as noted in the Domesday book. The present church dates from the early 14th century onwards and was restored in the 19th century. It consists of a north west tower with spire, nave with north and south aisles, south porch, and chancel with a small organ chamber. The tower is of four stages, 150 foot high. The top of the tower is battlemented with a recessed octagonal spire with three tiers of lucarnes. Five bells were installed in 1717, and they were rehung in 1846. The nave has an embattled parapet and closely spaced three light clerestory windows from the 15th century. The porch dates from around 1312 and the door has 14th century ironwork. The nave arcades are 14th century and are of three bays to the north, and 4 to the south. The south aisle has a piscina at the east end. There is a 15th century octagonal font on a pedestal."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 February 2016 by Jules & Jenny [www.flickr.com/photos/78914786@N06/24323483384] [accessed 5 March 2019]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 February 2016 by Jules & Jenny [www.flickr.com/photos/78914786@N06/24658755440] [accessed 5 March 2019]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 09994BIL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Date: ca. 1300?

Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Decorated

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew

Church Notes: present church ca, 1300(?); modified 15th, 19thC

Church Address: Church St, Billingborough, Sleaford NG34 0QG, UK -- Tel.: +44 1529 240750

Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located on the B1177, 11 km SE of Sleaford, 25 km ESE of Grantham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln

Historical Region: Hundred of Aveland

Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)

Font Notes: Click to view

There are five entries for Billingborough [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF1134/billingborough/] [accessed 5 March 2019], one of which reports "0.5 churches" in it. Sutton (1904: 98) reports a baptismal font probably of the Decorated period in this church. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF1178834244], however, notes: "C15 octagonal font with tall octagonal pedestal and plain basin with hood with angel dated 1942."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 678949 5863799

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.894053, -0.339766

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 53′ 38.59″ N, 0° 20′ 23.16″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1942?

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Sutton, A.F., "A Description of the Churches Visited in the Excursion from Sleaford, June 30th and July 1st, 1903", XXVII, 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, 1904, pp. 92-111; p. 98