Harpswell / Herpeswelle

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Hurd [www.glentworthparishes.org.uk]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 19 January 2007)

design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Hurd [www.glentworthparishes.org.uk]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 19 January 2007)

view of base - detail

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Hurd [www.glentworthparishes.org.uk]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 19 January 2007)

view of basin

Scene Description: damaged-repaired side

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Hurd [www.glentworthparishes.org.uk]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 19 January 2007)

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Hurd [www.glentworthparishes.org.uk]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 19 January 2007)

view of church exterior - south view

Source caption: "The church dates from the late 11th century onwards, and was restored in the 19th century. It has a West tower, nave with south aisle,south porch and a rectangular chancel. The West tower is 11th century, one of the few complete Anglo-Saxon Towers remaining in England. The north nave wall was rebuilt in the 19th century, the chancel has plain north and south wall and also dates from that time. The south Arcade is Norman and was extended in the 13th and 14th century. The South porch is 14th century also, although the doorway was restored in the 19th century and has a 20th century door. The South aisle has a West window of 13th century which was restored in the 19th century."

Scene Description: Source caption: "The church dates from the late 11th century onwards, and was restored in the 19th century. It has a West tower, nave with south aisle,south porch and a rectangular chancel. The West tower is 11th century, one of the few complete Anglo-Saxon Towers remaining in England. The north nave wall was rebuilt in the 19th century, the chancel has plain north and south wall and also dates from that time. The south Arcade is Norman and was extended in the 13th and 14th century. The South porch is 14th century also, although the doorway was restored in the 19th century and has a 20th century door. The South aisle has a West window of 13th century which was restored in the 19th century."

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Jules & Jenny, 2016 [www.flickr.com/photos/78914786@N06/27313707562] [accessed 24 November 2018]

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view of church interior - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [ww.geograph.org.uk/photo/460152] [accessed 24 November 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Jules & Jenny, 2016 [www.flickr.com/photos/78914786@N06/27341157201] [accessed 24 November 2018]

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view of font

Scene Description: damaged-repaired side

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Hurd [www.glentworthparishes.org.uk]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 19 January 2007)

view of font

Scene Description: damage-repaired side of font and base

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Hurd [www.glentworthparishes.org.uk]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 19 January 2007)

view of font - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Hurd [www.glentworthparishes.org.uk]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 19 January 2007)

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Hurd [www.glentworthparishes.org.uk]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 18 January 2007)

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [ww.geograph.org.uk/photo/459922] [accessed 24 November 2018]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Late 12th century Norman drum font in St.Chad's church." -- notice the miniature replica of a later-date font on it

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 March 2009 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1189697] [accessed 24 November 2018]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Hurd [www.glentworthparishes.org.uk]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 19 January 2007)

view of font cover

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Hurd [www.glentworthparishes.org.uk]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 19 January 2007)

INFORMATION

FontID: 12553HAR

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Chad

Church Patron Saints: St. Chad [aka, Ceaadda, Cedd, Ceoddi]

Church Location: Church Lane, Harpswell, Gainsborough DN21 5UY, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off the A631, off the A15, 10 km E of Gainsborough, 20 km N of Lincoln

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln

Historical Region: Hundred of Aslacoe

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, between the S door and the Saxon tower

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Medieval / composite

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Hurd, of www.glentworthparishes.org.uk, for the on-site notes and the photographs of this font.

Church Notes: original church ca. 1042?

Font Notes: Click to view

There are three entries for Harpswell [variant spelling] in te Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK9389/harpswell/] [accessed 24 November 2018], one of reports "0.5 churches" in it. Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) nore: "Font. Transitional, drum-shaped, with blank arcading, the arches straight-sided." On-site notes by Mark Hurd (18 January 2007): "Best preserved side of font faces into the church. South, west and north sides are much damaged and repaired with large segment brokent out, replaced and crudely repaired. Lead lining is also cracked and crudely repaired. This font is set upon what appears to be a recent (Edwardian? / Victorian?) lower plinth with a step for the vicar. A second plinth is on top of this and appears to be much older (possibly not as old as the font?) and again heavily damaged and repaired to the rear [...] Spoke with churchwarden who regrettably knows nothing of the history of the font other than it is quite old." Tub-shaped basin raised on a quadrangular base and plinth, the latter with 'kneeling stone'; the basin is decorated with a roll moulding at the upper rim, a blind arcade of narrow pointed -practically triangle-headed- arches all around. Round flat cover.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.3982, -0.5939

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 23′ 53.52″ N, 0° 35′ 38.04″ W

UTM: 30U 659971 5919266

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead lining

Rim Thickness: 9 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 53 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 71 cm*

Basin Depth: 25 cm*

Basin Total Height: 50 cm*

Height of Base: 35 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 85 cm [calculated -- with only the upper volume of the base]

Font Height (with Plinth): 111 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * taken by Mark Hurd (2007) for BSI

LID INFORMATION

Date: early to mid 20th-century

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: round and flat; appears plain and modern

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989