Harmston / Hermestune / Hermodestune

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design element - architectural - arch, scallop or semi-circle

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 November 2011 by Paul Farmer [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2726833] [accessed 24 November 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2010 by Gary Brothwell [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2129943] [accessed 24 November 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 november 2014 by Jules & Jenny [www.flickr.com/photos/78914786@N06/15773019181] [accessed 24 November 2018]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Harmston, All Saints, Font. Norman bowl set on a modern square base. Oak and wrought iron cover 1949."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 April 2018 by Dean Bird, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 24 Novemver 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12646HAR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Church Lane, Harmston, Lincoln LN5 9SS, UK -- Tel.: 01522 426723

Country Name: England

Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (NW) the B1178-A607 crossroads, between Waddington (N) and Coleby (S), 9-10 km S of Lincoln

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln

Historical Region: Hundred of Boothby

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end

Century and Period: 12th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval / composite

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ken Redmore, Website Editor, and Dean Bird, of the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, for the photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for Harmston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK9762/harmston/] [accessed 24 November 2018], one of which reports a priest and a church in it. Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) note: "Font Circular, but the underside octagonal. With large flat arches or scallops; again decidedly odd." [NB: the 'again' in Pevsner et al., refers to the presence of decorative elements in this church that are "impossible for the Middle Ages, impossible for Withers [who renovated in 1868 the 1717 church], yet unlikely for 1717"]. The present font, noted and illustrated in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 24 Novemver 2018], consists of roughly hemispherical basin that is an obvious re-cut from an earlier, possible Norman font; the square lower base and the plinth are both modern additions or replacements. The SLHA further notes that the present cover on the font was made of oak and wrought iron in 1949.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.149086, -0.546612

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 8′ 56.71″ N, 0° 32′ 47.8″ W

UTM: 30U 664066 5891667

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: round-to-octagonal -- hemispherical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1949 / Modern

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: round and flat wooden cover with wrought iron decoration and handle; 1949

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989