Linwood / Lindude

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design element - architectural - column - 4

Scene Description: engaged columns built into the stem of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Dean Bird, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 20 September 2018]

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design element - architectural - window - varied windows

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 February 2016 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4821852] [accessed 20 September 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "The nave has 14th century three bay arcades with octagonal piers and is there is a one-bay south chapel. The nave was restored and the chancel arch rebuilt in 1868. The clerestory has three pairs of 13th century windows."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 February 2016 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4822007] [accessed 20 September 2018]

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10783LIN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Cornelius

Church Patron Saints: St. Cornelius

Church Location: B1202, Linwood, West Lindsey, Lincolnshire, LN8 3QQ, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off the B1202, 4 km S of Market Rasen, 25 km NE of Lincoln

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln

Historical Region: Hundred of Walshcroft

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: ca. 1300?

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Decorated

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ken Redmore, Website Editor, and Dean Bird, Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, for the photograph of this font

Church Notes: Parish church. Late C12, C13, C14, C15, restoration of 1854 and 1868

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Linwood [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TF1086/linwood/] [accessed 20 September 2018] one of which reports "0.3 churches" in it. Paley (1844) notes: "Fine early Decorated Font [...] where the square stem has its angles rounded off into engaged shafts with plain capital and base mouldings." Described in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Octagonal, with blank windows in flat carving, all motifs of c. 1300, as if taken from a pattern-book." The entry for this church in Historic England [ "All fittings are C19 [...] but the font is a recut of the original late C13 font and includes the original base. It comprises an octagonal bowl with traceried panels on a square pedestal with engaged columns at the angles, on a stepped base."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.3563, -0.3276

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 21' 22" N, 0° 19' 39" W

UTM: 30U 677847 5915238

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989