Little Steeping / Stepi
Results: 6 records
design element - architectural - canopy - Ogee canopy
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
human figure - standing
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
view of church exterior - south portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "Fourteenth century south doorway to St.Andrew's church at Little Steeping".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 May 2008 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/812271] [accessed 11 November 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Where the fens meet the marshes by the Steeping River, St.Andrew's church is 14th & 15th century greenstone with brick patching".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 May 2008 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/812225] [accessed 11 November 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - southeast portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "Restored 14th century Priest's door in St.Andrew's church at Little Steeping".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 May 2008 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/812269] [accessed 11 November 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior in context - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © JThomas, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 March 2014 by JThomas [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3879627] [accesed 11 November 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 12699STE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Church Ln, Little Steeping, East Lindsey, Lincolnshire, PE23, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B1195, 6 km SE of Spilsby, W of Skegness
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Bolingbroke
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century (late?), Decorated? / Early Perpendicular?
Church Notes: present church said to be third on the site
There are two entries for [Little] Steeping [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF4362/little-steeping/] [accessed 11 November 2018], one of which reports a church in it. The entry for Little Steeping in White's History, gazetteer, and directory, of Lincolnshire, and the city & diocese [...], 4th ed. (Sheffield: W. White, 1882): p. 731, notes: "The font is very ancient and interesting." Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) note: "Font. Octagonal, late C14, with figures standing small under little twin ogee canopies." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF4335863556] notes: "Parish church. Mid C14, C15, 1638, 1701, restored C19 and C20", but it mentions no font in it. There is an added entry for a medieval in the churchyard at St. Andrews in Historic England [List Entry Number: 1014939]: "The monument includes a Grade II Listed standing stone cross located in the churchyard of St Andrew's Church, Little Steeping, to the south east of the south porch. The cross is medieval in origin with modern additions. The monument includes the base, comprising a plinth and a socket stone, the shaft, knop and head. The plinth is approximately 1.4m square in section and is constructed of worn limestone. On it rests the socket stone, a limestone block measuring 0.9m square in section at the base rising through moulded and chamfered corners to a top of octagonal section. Both the plinth and the socket stone are believed to be medieval in date. Fixed into the socket stone with lead and mortar is the shaft, square in section at the base with moulded and chamfered corners tapering upwards in octagonal section. The lowest part of the shaft, to a height of 0.24m, is medieval in date while the upper part dates from a late 19th or early 20th century restoration. The shaft terminates in a moulded knop and head, which takes the form of a gabled cross; on the south side of the cross is a carved representation of the Crucifixion, and on the north side a figure thought to represent a saint. The full height of the cross is approximately 3.8m."
COORDINATES
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989