Cumberworth nr. Alfors / Combreuorde / Combrevorde / Cumberwerth
Results: 4 records
symbol - shield - emblem - Christ - the instruments of the Passion
view of church exterior - south portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "15th century south doorway to the redundant church of St.Helen at Cumberworth".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 February 2009 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1161472] [accessed 2 November 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St.Helen's church. A hotch-potch of medieval greenstone and 19th century brick in the redundant church of St.Helen at Cumberworth"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 February 2009 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1161472] [accessed 2 November 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 12586CUM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Helen [redundant since 1987; sold for residential use in 1989]
Church Patron Saints: St. Helena
Church Location: Main St, Cumberworth, East Lindsey LN13, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A52, 7 km SE of Alford
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Lincoln]
Historical Region: Hundred of Calcewath
Font Location in Church: [present whereabouts unkown]
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church Notes: 13thC church; demolished; re-built 15thC; re-built 1838; redundant 1987; sold for residential use 1989
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Cumberworth [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TF5073/cumberworth/] [accessed 2 November 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) note: "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with four flower or leaf motifs, and four shields with the Instruments of the Passion." [NB: this same source noted that the church had been made redundant in 1986 and "its future is uncertain at the time of writing"]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF5062773739] notes: "Parish church, now closed. C13, C14, C15, 1838 rebuilding [...] fine octagonal font with shields in cusped panels and Symbols of the Passion, plain octagonal stem, base with rounded stop chamfers." [NB: we have no information on the present whereabouts of the 15th-century font of this church; we do not have information on the font of the 13th-century church that was demolished and re-built in the 15th century, when a new font was installed, according to 'Lincs to the past' [www.lincstothepast.com/St-Helen-s-Church--Cumberworth/228632.record?pt=S] [accessed 2 November 2018].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.23902, 0.2548
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 14′ 20.47″ N, 0° 15′ 17.28″ E
UTM: 31U 316807 5902377
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989