Great Coates, nr. Grimsby / Cotes
Image copyright © Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 2018
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Results: 3 records
coat of arms - in a panel - cusped panel - 8
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken in June 2014, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 10 November 2018]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Wright, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 April 2006 by David Wright [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/145916] [accessed 10 November 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken in June 2014, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 10 November 2018]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 12636COA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Great Coates Rd, Great Coates, Grimsby DN37 9NT, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A1136, S of the A180, in the western outskirts of Grimsby
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Bradley
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ken Redmore, Website Editor, of the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, for the photograph of this font
There are five entries for [Great] Coates [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TA2310/great-coates/] [accessed 10 November 2018], one of which reports a priest and a church in it. Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) note: "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with shields in cusped panels." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TA2332709783] notes: "Parish church. c1200, extended in C13; C14 aisles and chancel, C14-C15 tower; late C18 clerestory and north aisle west window; restorations of 1865 by James Fowler of Louth; restorations of 1929-32 [...] C14-C15 octagonal font with cusped panels and shields." Illustrated in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 10 November 2018]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
53.5699,
-0.139
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
53° 34′ 11.64″ N,
0° 8′ 20.4″ W
UTM: 30U 689442 5939477
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: round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989
