Wrangle / Weranghe / Werangle / Wrange / Wranghill

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 11520WRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Nicholas, Wrangle
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17526146
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin & St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: Church Ln, Wrangle, Boston PE22 9EP, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1205 870886
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A52, about 15 km NE of Boston
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Wolmersty [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: price of a font: " in 1468 and to have cost £12 13s. 9d" [NB: sounds expensive -- compare with others of the time]
Font Notes:
There are two entries for Wragle [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF4250/wrangle/] [accessed 22 June 2025] neither of which mentions priest or church in it. Described in Gough (1792): "octagon, with plain square compartments on a fluted shaft, and the three steps with the raised one at the West side as at East Dereham." [NB: Gough has 'Wrange'].. Allen (1833) quotes Gough practically verbatim, and adds: "This font is said to have been erected in 1468 and to have cost £12 13s. 9d.", which he footnotes as information from Archaeologia (vol. X: 198).

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

  • Allen, Thomas, The History of the County of Lincoln, from the earliest period to the present time [...], London & Lincoln: John Saunders, Junior, 1833-, vol. 1: 275 and fn
  • Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; p. 193