Navenby / Navenbi / Navenebi
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Image and permission received (e-mail of 26 September 2018 from Ken Redmore, Website Editor, Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology)
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view of church exterior - south portal - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 April 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4456478] [accessed 26 December 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 April 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4455961] [accessed 26 December 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font: "lavish font design by Charles Kirk which was shown at the 1862 London Exhibition" [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 March 2018 by Dean Bird, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 26 December 2018]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 26 September 2018 from Ken Redmore, Website Editor, Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology)
INFORMATION
FontID: 12722NAV
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: 1 Church Ln, Navenby, Lincoln LN5 0EG, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A606 [aka Grantham Rd], 13 km S of Lincoln, 13-14 km NNW of Sleaford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Boothby
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, in 2018 [reported in the rector's garden ca. 1886]
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ken Redmore, Website Editor, and Dean Bird, of the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, for the photograph of the two fonts here
There is an entry for Navenby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK9857/navenby/] [accessed 26 December 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A paper on the parish of Navnby read 2 November by the Revd, G.E. Jeans and published in the Walford's Antiquarian Magazine and Bibliographical Review (London, 1886): vol.9, unpaged, noted: "The old font of the church is now in the Rectory garden, its place having been taken by a modern one." Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) note: "Font. By Charles Kirk Jun. [i.e., Charles Kirk the Younger, Victorian architect responsible for the renovation of this church in 1875-1876]. Lavish. Shown at the London Exhibition of 1862." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK9865257840] notes: "Parish church. C13, C14, C15, mid C18, restored 1875-6 and C20 addition. [...] Below the tower is the baptistery with a lavish font design by Charles Kirk which was shown at the 1862 London Exhibition". The entry for Navenby in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 26 December 2018] illustrates the west end of the church interior showing two fonts, one, the modern one, beneath the tower, and another, an earlier one, just east of the tower arch; the image is captioned: "Navenby, St Peter, font. Smaller font in the foreground is Norman. Baptistry under the tower contains a font exhibited in The Great Exhibition of 1851. This was subsequently donated to the church in 1876 by Charles Kirk. DB 19 March 2018 ". The 'Norman' font has obviously been restored into the church now, as shown in the SLHA entry above; the font, which now stands just east of the tower arch, appears to be a composite object, a plain octagonal basin raised on a decorated square pedestal base of likely unrelated nature and later date; if this old basin belongs to the medieval church here, it will probably be of the Early English or Decorated period, rather than Norman; it has a flat octagonal cover on it now, plain and modern. This is presumably the 'Norman' font reported in the rectory garden ca. 1886 [cf. supra]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
53.1087,
-0.527786
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
53° 6′ 31.32″ N,
0° 31′ 40.03″ W
UTM: 30U 665480 5887219
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone?
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989