Carlton-le-Moorland / Carletune / Carlton-le-Moorlands
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 2018
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 19 November 2011, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 21 October 2018]
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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases - 4
Scene Description: set at 90-degree angles on the basin sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 2018
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 19 November 2011, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 21 October 2018]
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view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jules & Jenny, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 January 2016 by Jules & Jenny [www.flickr.com/photos/78914786@N06/24088501569] [accessed 21 October 2018]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Brian, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2006 by Brian [www.flickr.com/photos/79727841@N00/198860921] [accessed 21 October 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jules & Jenny, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 January 2016 by Jules & Jenny [www.flickr.com/photos/jpguffogg/23829512613/in/photostream/] [accessed 21 October 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0
view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "The font dates from around 1200, much the earliest survival of the medieval church on this site. It is circular on a square base with shafts at each corner. The faces of the bowl are lightly carved with a decorative frieze.The base has been recently restored. October 2016."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 November 2011, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 21 October 2018]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 12565CAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church St, Carlton-le-Moorland, Lincoln LN5 9HS, UK -- Tel.: 01522 788383
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (SE) the A46, 15 km NE of Newark-on-Trent, 16 km SW of Lincoln
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Graffoe
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Transitional / Early English
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ken Redmore, Website Editor, Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, for the photograph of this font
Font Notes:
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There is an entry fpr Carlton [-le-Moorland] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK9057/carlton-le-moorland/] [accessed 21 October 2018]; it mentions a priest and a church in it. Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) note: "Font. Of c. 1200. Circular, with shafts at the angles and a variety of incised arcading." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK9081057898] reports: "Parish church. C11, C13, C15, late C16 restored 1890-1 by C Hodgson Fowler. [...] C12 circular font with octagonal corner shafts."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.110539, -0.64506
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 6′ 37.94″ N, 0° 38′ 42.22″ W
UTM: 30U 657625 5887159
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 platform with four stylised scroll ribs around a turned pivot' acorn finial; modern
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989