Goulceby / Colchesbi / Goulsby / Golceby
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Large octagonal medieval font in All Saints' church".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 November 2007 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/621714] [accessed 10 November 2018]
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symbol - cross - saltire
Scene Description: incised on each side, but very faint now
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 November 2007 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/621714] [accessed 10 November 2018]
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view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Wood, 2018
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".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 November 2007 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/621717] [accessed 10 November 2018]
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 November 2007 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/621714] [accessed 10 November 2018]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12631GOU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26316989
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Notes: partially restored 1855; demolished 1886; re-built 1908
Church Address: Top Ln, Goulceby, Louth LN11 9UP, UK
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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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
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.2977, -0.1229
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, p. 312