Goulceby / Colchesbi / Goulsby / Golceby

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2

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symbol - cross - saltire

Scene Description: incised on each side, but very faint now

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view of church exterior - north view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 April 2018 by Peter Wood [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5755926] [accessed 10 November 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nave and chancel all one in the immaculately kept All Saints' church at Goulceby".

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Large octagonal medieval font in All Saints' church".

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12631GOU
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Top Ln, Goulceby, Louth LN11 9UP, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the A153, just W of Asterby, 11 km SW of Louth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Gartree
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church Notes: partially restored 1855; demolished 1886; re-built 1908
There is an entry for Goulceby [variant spelling] in the Dopmesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF2579/goulceby/] [accessed 10 November 2018]; it reports a priest and a church in it. Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) note: "Font. Large, octagonal, the panels with the simplest patterns of incised saltire crosses. Is this Perp[endicular] too?". The entry for Goulceby in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF2519679498] notes: "Parish church. 1908, by G.H. Allison of Louth, re-using some medieval fragments.[...] Large C14 octagonal font with slender rolls defining each side and St. Andrew's crosses incised on each side."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.2977, -0.1229
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 17' 51" N, 0° 7' 22" W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and plain; modern

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989