Alkborough / Alchebarge

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Results: 8 records

view of church exterior - northeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Steve Parker, 2005

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 May 2005 by Steve Parker [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/296404] [accessed 30 September 2018]

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view of church exterior - south portal

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Wright, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 March 2010 by David Wright [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1753166] [accessed 30 September 2018]

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view of church exterior - south view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 March 2010 by David Wright [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1754966] [accessed 30 September 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - capital

Scene Description: Source caption: "Quatrefoil piers support stiff leaf capitals with round abaci in the south arcade of St.John the Baptist's nave - 13th century Early English."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 October 2008 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1019788] [accessed 30 September 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "St.John the Baptist's nave. Early English nave looking east with John Oldrid Scott's chancel arch of 1887."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 October 2008 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1019822] [accessed 30 September 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "St.John the Baptist's nave. Looking west towards the Anglo-Saxon tower arch"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 October 2008 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1019838] [accessed 30 September 2018]

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view of font and cover - southeast side

Scene Description: showing considerable damage to the upper rim of the basin

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 2018

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 30 September 2018]

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view of font and cover in context - northeast side

Scene Description: Source caption"Plain Norman tub font on a later base in St.John the Baptist's church".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 October 2008 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1019795] [accessed 30 September 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12515ALK
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Church View, Alkborough, Scunthorpe DN15 9JF, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the B1430, S of the Humber river, E of the Trent, 20 km E of Airmyn
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Manley
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ken Redmore, Website Editor, and Dean Bird, of the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, for the photograph of this font
Church Notes: small Benedictine Priory Cell founded before 1052; abandoned 1220;
There are two entries for Alkborough [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE8821/alkborough/] [accessed 30 September 2018], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) write: "Plain circular Norman font on a modern base" [NB: the pedestal base probably dating from the restoration of this church by J.O. Scott in 1887]. There is considerable damage to the upper rim of the basin on the southeast side. The round, flat and plain wooden cover is modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.68383, -0.6663
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 41′ 1.79″ N, 0° 39′ 58.68″ W
UTM: 30U 654117 5950875

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain; modern

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989