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

INFORMATION

Font ID: 12658HOL
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [re-used capital], Early English [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Luke
Font Location in Church: Inside the doorway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Luke
Church Address: Holton-le-Moor, Market Rasen LN7 6AE, UK -- Tel.: 01673 844770
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: re-cycled capital now a stoup
Font Notes:
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

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

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989, p. 390