Langton by Spilsby / Langton by Partney

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: edited detail orf a digital photograph taken 16 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5153266]
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

on the splaying octagonal lower base
Scene Description: on the splaying octagonal lower base
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Image Source: edited detail orf a digital photograph taken 16 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5153266]
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design element - patterns - tracery - varied

on the octagonal stem of the base
Scene Description: on the octagonal stem of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: edited detail orf a digital photograph taken 16 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5153266]
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design element - patterns - tracery - window tracery

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: edited detail orf a digital photograph taken 16 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5153266]
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symbol - cross - saltire - crocketed

on one of the panels of the octagonal basin
Scene Description: on one of the panels of the octagonal basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Wilkinson, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph [31 August 2015?] by Philip Wilkinson, in English Buildings [http://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2015/08/langton-by-spilsby-lincolnshire_31.html] [accessed 2 December 2018]
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view of church exterior - porch - detail

Source caption: "Stone crucifix, St Peter & Paul's church, Langton by Spilsby. The following reference to the cross appeared in “Lincolnshire Notes and Queries” Vol VII Page 30 (1902): “An interesting discovery has recently been made by Dr Cochrane, the Rector of the Parish: In a plantation adjoining the Rectory grounds has been found a large portion of an ancient stone crucifix, with the Saviour outstretched on the Cross, perfect down to the waist: the lower part having not yet been found, as it is to be hoped it may be. The style of the Cross, with rude trefoil finials to the top and two arms, and the carving of the figure, are so primitive, this it is probably a Saxon relic. The relic bears some resemblance to a very old carving of the Crucified Saviour, still to be seen, cut in the natural rock of a cave in the side of a hill named Carcliff Tor, near Rowsley in Derbyshire, a retreat where secret worship was probably conducted by early Christian converts.”"
Scene Description: Source caption: "Stone crucifix, St Peter & Paul's church, Langton by Spilsby. The following reference to the cross appeared in “Lincolnshire Notes and Queries” Vol VII Page 30 (1902): “An interesting discovery has recently been made by Dr Cochrane, the Rector of the Parish: In a plantation adjoining the Rectory grounds has been found a large portion of an ancient stone crucifix, with the Saviour outstretched on the Cross, perfect down to the waist: the lower part having not yet been found, as it is to be hoped it may be. The style of the Cross, with rude trefoil finials to the top and two arms, and the carving of the figure, are so primitive, this it is probably a Saxon relic. The relic bears some resemblance to a very old carving of the Crucified Saviour, still to be seen, cut in the natural rock of a cave in the side of a hill named Carcliff Tor, near Rowsley in Derbyshire, a retreat where secret worship was probably conducted by early Christian converts.”"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 Novembre 2011 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2714694] [accessed 2 December 2018]
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view of church exterior - south view

Source caption: "The present building was erected in 1725 in the time of George Langton (1647-1727) [...] Although records state that there was a church and resident priest at Langton before the Norman Conquest all that remains from earlier churches are the font and monuments to John Langton (d 1533) and Roger Langton (d1625) in the floor near the inner door [...] The plain red brick exterior of the church is crowned by a roof with wide overhanging eaves. In 1792 the original roof was stripped of lead, possibly for bullets for the Napoleonic wars, and the roof pitch increased to take the present slate roof. In 1825 the octagonal bell turret with bull’s eye louvres was added though the bells hang in a remarkable frame within the roof gable below the bottom of the tower."
Scene Description: Source caption: "The present building was erected in 1725 in the time of George Langton (1647-1727) [...] Although records state that there was a church and resident priest at Langton before the Norman Conquest all that remains from earlier churches are the font and monuments to John Langton (d 1533) and Roger Langton (d1625) in the floor near the inner door [...] The plain red brick exterior of the church is crowned by a roof with wide overhanging eaves. In 1792 the original roof was stripped of lead, possibly for bullets for the Napoleonic wars, and the roof pitch increased to take the present slate roof. In 1825 the octagonal bell turret with bull’s eye louvres was added though the bells hang in a remarkable frame within the roof gable below the bottom of the tower."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 November 2011 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2714668] [accessed 2 December 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Source caption: "Langton, St. Peter and St. Paul's Church: Unaltered Georgian interior"
Scene Description: Source caption: "Langton, St. Peter and St. Paul's Church: Unaltered Georgian interior"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5153280]
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view of font and cover

Source caption: "Langton, St. Peter and St. Paul's Church: Decorated period font, predating the [present] church."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Langton, St. Peter and St. Paul's Church: Decorated period font, predating the [present] church."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5153266]
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view of font and cover

Source caption: "This one is a ‘pattern book’ font on which each face illustrates a design of window tracery, and it is similar to a font in Warwickshire that I’ve posted about before. It’s late medieval and bears tracery designs that are mostly in what we now call the Decorated Gothic style of the 14th century. But there’s one face with a design of the Perpendicular style that spread across England in the late-14th and 15th centuries, indicating that the font must be late-14th century at least. My photograph shows a couple of particularly crisp Decorated tracery designs. Although out of place chronologically, the font sits beautifully among Langton’s box pews and under its curvaceous, dome-like cover, presumably a contribution of the woodworkers who fitted out the church in the Georgian period."
Scene Description: Source caption: "This one is a ‘pattern book’ font on which each face illustrates a design of window tracery, and it is similar to a font in Warwickshire that I’ve posted about before. It’s late medieval and bears tracery designs that are mostly in what we now call the Decorated Gothic style of the 14th century. But there’s one face with a design of the Perpendicular style that spread across England in the late-14th and 15th centuries, indicating that the font must be late-14th century at least. My photograph shows a couple of particularly crisp Decorated tracery designs. Although out of place chronologically, the font sits beautifully among Langton’s box pews and under its curvaceous, dome-like cover, presumably a contribution of the woodworkers who fitted out the church in the Georgian period."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Wilkinson, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph [31 August 2015?] by Philip Wilkinson, in English Buildings [http://englishbuildings.blogspot.com/2015/08/langton-by-spilsby-lincolnshire_31.html] [accessed 2 December 2018]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

FontID: 12690LAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Location: Church Ln, Langton by Spilsby, Spilsby B23 4PU, UK -- Tel.: (01790) 753649
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A16, 3-4 km NW of Partney, 6 km N of Spilsby, 13-14 km WNW of Skegness
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Hill
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Late Decorated? / Early Perpendicular?
Font Notes:
There is an entry for this Langton in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF3970/langton/] [accessed 2 December 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) note: "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], of the pattern-book type. The window patterns all Dec[orated] except for one Perp[endicular] one. One panel has no window pattern but simply a tracery motif." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF3898670395] [accessed 2 December 2018] notes: "Parish church. Early C18, roof pitch increased 1792, 1825. [...] Octagonal C15 ashlar font decorated with blind cusped tracery to bowl and pedestal, plus early C18 wooden domed cover.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.2121, 0.079
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 12′ 44″ N, 0° 04′ 44″ E
UTM: 31U 304956 5899848

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: bell-shaped dome witn panelles sides and ball finial; appears modern

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989