Glentham / Glandham / Glantham

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BU01: design element - motifs - foliage - stiff-leaf

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roy Summerfields, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph by Roy Summerfields, February 2007 [www.owmbygroup.co.uk]

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

information

Scene Description: dates the old section to 1260, the rest to 1916

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roy Summerfields, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph by Roy Summerfields, February 2007 [www.owmbygroup.co.uk]

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

view of church exterior - south portal

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 June 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/434747] [accessed 14 July 2019]

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view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ian S, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2018 by Ian S [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5852515] [accessed 14 July 2019]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ian S, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 February 2014 by Ian S [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3849175] [accessed 14 July 2019]

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view of church interior - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2013 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3519704] [accessed 14 July 2019]

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view of church interior - looking west

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2013 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3519697] [accessed 14 July 2019]

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view of font

Scene Description: most of it modern, the stiff-leaf section incorporated below the underbowl

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roy Summerfields, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph by Roy Summerfields, February 2007 [www.owmbygroup.co.uk]

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

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ian S, 2018

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 May 2018 by Ian S [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5852523] [accessed 14 July 2019]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: with a modern inscription on the side of the base

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 June 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/434758] [accessed 14 July 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12628GLE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Location: Church Close, Glentham, Market Rasen LN8 2EW, UK -- Tel.: 07549 522494
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A631 [aka High St], 13 km WNW of Market-Rasen
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Aslacoe
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W, by the gallery stairwell
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [base], Medieval / composite
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Roy Summerfields, of www.owmbygroup.co.uk, for the photographs of this font.
There are three entries for Glentham [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF0090/glentham/] [accessed 14 July 2019] none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) have: "Font. The underside a sumptuous circular stiff-leaf capital". The Owmby Group of Parishes web site [www.owmbygroup.co.uk] [accessed 6 February 2007] notes: "The font has a 12th century base with a circular still leaf capital. The top section was added in 1916." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF0031490464] notes: "Parish Church. C13, C14, C15, C16, 1756, 1855, C20. [...] The font is a circular bowl on a circular pedestal with stiff leaf decoration to the underside of the bowl, inscribed "about 1260 and 1916".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.40144, -0.492576
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 24′ 5.18″ N, 0° 29′ 33.28″ W
UTM: 30U 666694 5919858

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: English
Inscription Notes: modern inscription on the modern base
Inscription Location: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Text: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989