Aunsby / Ounesbi / Outhenby
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design element - motifs - foliage - stiff-leaf
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken September 2013 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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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: more like a platform for the cylindrical basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken September 2013 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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human figure - head - floating head
Scene Description: one such can be seen here, to the left of the centre column, at the top
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Allan Soedring, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in ASTOFT [www.astoft.co.uk/aunsby.htm] [accessed 15 January 2007]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Grade II* listed church dating from the 12th century. The tower and spire were rebuilt in 1861."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jules & Jenny, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2015 by Jules & Jenny [www.flickr.com/photos/78914786@N06/18901157910] [accessed 30 September 2018]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bob Danylec, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 December 2005 by Bob Danylec [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/87345] [accessed 19 July 2013]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trustees of the British Museum, 2013
Image Source: print from an "etching on chine collé", between 1825 and 1850, "Drawn by [?] Jrs. Simpson Junr. - Etched by Robt Roberts", now in the British Museum collections [ref.: 1863,0725.784 -- PPA350362]
Copyright Instructions: Reproduced under the British Museum's terms of use
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Allan Soedring, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in ASTOFT [www.astoft.co.uk/aunsby.htm] [accessed 15 January 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken September 2013 by Dean Bird, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 30 September 2018]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 12531AUN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Thomas a Becket
Church Patron Saints: St. Thomas of Canterbury [aka St. Thomas à Becket]
Church Location: Aunsby, Lincolnshire NG34 8SY, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located near the a15-A52 crossing, about 17 km E of Grantham, in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Aswardhurn
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: Aswarby, also in Lincs.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ken Redmore, Website Editor, and Dean Bird, of the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, and to Allan Soedring [www.astoft.co.uk/aunsby.htm] for the photographs of this font
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Aunsby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF0438/aunsby/] [accessed 30 September 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Illustrated in a print from an "etching on chine collé", between 1825 and 1850, "Drawn by [?] Jrs. Simpson Junr. - Etched by Robt Roberts", now in the British Museum collections [ref.: 1863,0725.784 -- PPA350362]. Simpson (1828), writing on the font at Aswarby, adds: "In the church of the adjoining parish of Aunsby is a Font of the same date, and very similar in design". [cf. Index entry for Aswarby]. Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. Circular, of c. 1200. At the corners four polygonal shafts. The capitals have ribbed leaves, waterleaf, crockets. Spurs extend from them to embrace the bowl. They are small and leaf-shaped, except for the horizontal heads (cf. Aswarby)." The basin, which appears to have been drastically cleaned or re-tooled, rests on a 19th-century base.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.936436, -0.446587
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 56′ 11.17″ N, 0° 26′ 47.71″ W
UTM: 30U 671597 5868252
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round (with columns) (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (with columns)
Notes on Measurements: [cf. Index entry for Aswarby for similar measuremnts]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round, with metal ring handle
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989
Simpson, Francis, A series of ancient baptismal fonts: chronologically arranged, drwan by F. Simpson, Jun., engraved by R. Roberts, London: Septimus Prowett, 1828