Owmby by Spital / Ounebi / Ounesbi

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Ss Peter & Paul church, Owmby-by-Spital [...] The village is known as Owmby by Spital because of the hospital that used to be situated in the village. The church dates from around 1200 onwards, and the chancel was rebuilt in 1808. [...] The tower doorway is circa 1200."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2013 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3521355] [accessed 1 January 2019]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 17 April 2015 by Neil Theasby [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4435608] [accessed 1 January 2019]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "The late 12th century north arcade is of three bays, with square bases which may be older. The circular piers have leafed capitals and human head label stops. There are traces of paint on the arcade with black and yellow chevrons on the inner order of the eastern arch.[...] The chancel arch is 19th-century".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2013 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3521366] [accessed 1 January 2019]

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view of church interior - nave - north arcade - capital

Scene Description: Source caption: "Crudely carved early stiff leaf capital of c1200 in the north arcade of St.Peter & St.Paul's church".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 May 2008 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/795087] [accessed 1 January 2018]

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view of font

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Roy Summerfields, February 2007 [www.owmbygroup.co.uk]

Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received (e-mail of 19 February 2007)

view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "the font is made of reused sections of a massive drum pillar of uncertain date".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2018 by Ian S [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5852608] [accessed 1 Januaey 2019]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Humble Norman tub font of c1200 in the north aisle of St.Peter & St.Paul's church"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 May 2008 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/795072] [accessed 1 January 2018]

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph by Roy Summerfields, February 2007 [www.owmbygroup.co.uk]

Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received (e-mail of 19 February 2007)

INFORMATION

FontID: 12716OWM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul

Church Location: Church Ln, Owmby-by-Spital, Market Rasen LN8 2HN, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (SE) the A15-A631 crossroads, just N of Saxby, S of Normanby, 13 km W of Market Rasen, 18 km N of Lincoln

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln

Historical Region: Hundred of Aslacoe

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: [composite font?], [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Roy Summerfields, of www.owmbygroup.co.uk, for the photograph of this object.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are six entries for this Owmby [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF0087/owmby-by-spital/] [accessed 1 January 2019] none of which mentions cleric or church in it. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF0001687351] notes: "Parish Church. C12, c.1200, C13, C14, C16, chancel rebuilt 1808, C20. [...] All other fittings are C19, apart from the font which is made from reused sections of a massive drum pillar, quite out of scale with anything which survives, and of uncertain date. The topmost section is probably a reused and inverted capital of which one plain volute survives." The object in St. Peter and St. Paul's Owmby is a rare one indeed, and it is very unlikely that it was conceived in the present form as a font; perhaps the upper section might have been originally the basin of a font, although, as indicated in the HE notes above, more likely a capital; the object consists of three blocks of rough stone put together with cement to form one tall font, perhaps octagonal, but very rounded now; the upper block has a round inner basin lined with lead [the lining appears modern], and the upper surface of the basin around the lip of the lining is slightly chamfered and well worn. Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) write: "Crude, octagonal, with broaches at the corners."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.37341, -0.4977

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 22′ 24.28″ N, 0° 29′ 51.72″ W

UTM: 30U 666463 5916729

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal? (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal?

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: polygonal and flat, with ring handle; modern

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989