Clixby / Clisbi

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Apostle or saint - standing - unidenitfied

Scene Description: the font originally from Low Toynton,now in the interior of Clixby All Hallows

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julian P Guffogg, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2016 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4943442] [accessed 21 October 2018]

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Apostle or saint - unidentified

Scene Description: the font originally from Low Toynton,now in the interior of Clixby All Hallows

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julian P Guffogg, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2016 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4943442] [accessed 21 October 2018]

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Apostle or saint - unidentified

Scene Description: the font originally from Low Toynton,now in the interior of Clixby All Hallows

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Allan Barton, 2010

Image Source: detail of a digital photographs (font, int, ext) taken 25 June 2010 [www.flickr.com/photos/vitrearum/sets/72157624325970859/] by Allan Barton [aka Vitrearum]

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Apostle or saint - unidentified

Scene Description: the font originally from Low Toynton,now in the interior of Clixby All Hallows

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Allan Barton, 2010

Image Source: detail of a digital photographs (font, int, ext) taken 25 June 2010 [www.flickr.com/photos/vitrearum/sets/72157624325970859/] by Allan Barton [aka Vitrearum]

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angel - showing wings

Scene Description: the font originally from Low Toynton,now in the interior of Clixby All Hallows

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Allan Barton, 2010

Image Source: detail of a digital photographs (font, int, ext) taken 25 June 2010 [www.flickr.com/photos/vitrearum/sets/72157624325970859/] by Allan Barton [aka Vitrearum]

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design element - motifs - floral

Scene Description: in the spandrels of the stem -- the font originally from Low Toynton,now in the interior of Clixby All Hallows

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julian P Guffogg, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2016 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4943442] [accessed 21 October 2018]

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design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose

Scene Description: in the panel to the right of the square flower -- the font originally from Low Toynton,now in the interior of Clixby All Hallows

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 July 2007 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/500269] [accessed 21 October 2018]

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design element - motifs - floral - square flower

Scene Description: in the panel to the right of the Apostles -- the font originally from Low Toynton,now in the interior of Clixby All Hallows

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 July 2007 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/500269] [accessed 21 October 2018]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: the font originally from Low Toynton,now in the interior of Clixby All Hallows

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2004

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/429174] [accessed 21 October 2018]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Clixby All Hallows: showing the 19th-century west porch; the present nave was the chancel of the medieval church; the original nave was demolished in 1727; this church is now [2018] redundant]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2004

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [geograph.org.uk-104793.jpg]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "The former Church of St Peter, Low Toynton. The Old Rectory to the left and the ivy covered building of the former Church of St Peter to the right. The church, which was rebuilt in 1811 was declared redundant on 02-Oct-1973 and sold into private ownership on 08-Jun-1977. It seated about sixty people. Anglican Parish records exist from 1585."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 May 2010 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1901746] [accessed 21 October 2018]

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view of church interior - chancel arch and east end

Scene Description: Source caption: "The former Church of St Peter, Low Toynton. This photograph shows the enlarged hole in the roof. If the roof and floor was restored, this could be a substantial building for all sorts of purposes. It appears to have been left to rot since it was sold, in 1977."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 May 2010 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1900955] [accessed 21 October 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "The former Church of St Peter, Low Toynton. This shot shows that most of the plaster laths have been revealed in the ceiling. The heavy covering of ivy is probably slowing the decay to the roof. The walls are certainly solid and it could stand for many more years. Wiki has it recorded as demolished and that is why I returned to the church six years after my previous visit. The shot also shows an upturned pew."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 May 2010 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1900985] [accessed 21 October 2018]

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view of font

Scene Description: the font originally from Low Toynton,now in the interior of Clixby All Hallows

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2004

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/429174] [accessed 21 October 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of font

Scene Description: the font originally from Low Toynton,now in the interior of Clixby All Hallows

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Allan Barton, 2010

Image Source: digital photographs (font, int, ext) taken 25 June 2010 [www.flickr.com/photos/vitrearum/sets/72157624325970859/] by Allan Barton [aka Vitrearum]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION [requested] NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of font

Scene Description: the font originally from Low Toynton,now in the interior of Clixby All Hallows

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Allan Barton, 2010

Image Source: digital photographs (font, int, ext) taken 25 June 2010 [www.flickr.com/photos/vitrearum/sets/72157624325970859/] by Allan Barton [aka Vitrearum]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION [requested] NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

FontID: 12572CLI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Hallows [redundant since 1973] [originally from Low Toynton St Peter's]
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Clixby, Caistor, Lincolnshire, LN7 6RT, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Clixby is off the A1084, is located 4 km NW of Caistor [Low Toynton is 2 km NE of Horncastle]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Yarborough
Font Location in Church: Inside the church at Clixby
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Cognate Fonts: Huttoft [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: Pevsner, Harris & Antram (1989) inform that the church was already redundant and in the care of the Redundant Churches Trust/Fund by 1989 -- as it is, the present church is just the chancel of the original 13thC church here; the nave was demolished in 1727; the remains were restored in 1889 with the addition of a small porch, and the building was continued to be used as a parish church until it became redundant in 1973 and in the care of The Churches Conservation Trust
There is an entry for Clixby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TA1004/clixby/] [accessed 21 October 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. No entry for Low Toynton found in the Domesday survey, though there are other 'Toyntons' in Lincolnshire, none of which appears to correspond to this one. The entry for Low Toynton in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports: "the font is curiously sculptured". It is noted in its new location in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. From St Peter, Low Toynton. Octagonal, Perp[endicular]. Against the stem eight figures, against the bowl a flower, another flower, an angel, a seated figure, a standing figure, another angel, a branch, and two panels with two figures each. What chracterizes the figures is the way their long hair stands on and around their heads (cf. Huttoft, etc.)." The font consists of an octagonal basin raised on an octagonal pedestal base, and a moulded lower base of the octagonal-to-square shape; the stem has a pointed niche on each side, with a standing figure in it; the figures are characterised by their 'big hair' [akin to those found often on fonts of the same period in East Anglia], and, although they are much weathered, most of them appear to hold an object likely to identify them as eight of the twelve Apostles; on two of the basin sides are four other figures of the same characteristics, all holding objects, one of them clearly a sword, the symbol of Paul the Apostle; the other sides of the basin are decorated with the the motifs noted in Pevsner et al., above; the transition between the volumes of the font is marked with thick mouldings; the niches of the stem have floral motifs in the spandrels. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF2753170494] reports: "Parish church, now redundant. 1811 re-using mid C12 fragments, late C19", but it mentions no font in it.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 676425 5933882

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989