Holton-le-Moor No. 2 / Hoctun / Hoctune

INFORMATION

FontID: 12658HOL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Luke
Church Patron Saints: St. Luke
Church Location: Holton-le-Moor, Market Rasen LN7 6AE, UK -- Tel.: 01673 844770
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B1434, W of the A46, 6 km SW of Caistor, 10 km N of Market Rasen
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Walshcroft
Font Location in Church: Inside the doorway
Century and Period: 13th century [re-used capital], Early English [altered]
There are three entries for Holton [-le-Moor] [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF0897/holton-le-moor/] [accessed 25 November 2018] none of which mentions a church in it, though one was in the lordship of "Enwin (the priest)". Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) note: "Inside the door, the stoup is a C13 octagonal capital". The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF0821297820] notes: "Parish Church, Cll, C13, 1854 restoration and rebuilding by George Place; 1926 alteration and addition by H.G. Gamble, unfinished [... ]n the west end of the south aisle is a C13 capital inverted and set into the wall, used originally as a font. The hexagonal font is now a C20 reconstruction using some C12 fragments of a circular tub with cable moulding round the top."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.4663, -0.371
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 27′ 58.68″ N, 0° 22′ 15.6″ W
UTM: 30U 674509 5927363

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989