North Ormsby No. 2 / North Ormesby / Nun Ormsby / Ormesbi

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

symbol - shield

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

view of church exterior in context - east view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Converted St. Helen's Church, North Ormsby. From the east, conversion work is still in progress [in May 2007] but a lot has already been completed. [NB: according to the EH entry [cf. FontNotes] the 15thC font and the pulpit were not removed when the church was closed].

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Beal, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2007 by John Beal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/461584] [accessed 7 May 2019]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 12730ORM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Helen [aka All Saints] [redundant since 1980; sol as private dwelling]
Church Patron Saints: St. Helena
Church Location: Church Ln. North Ormsby, Louth LN11, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (SW) the A16-A18 crossroads, 11 km NNW of Louth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Ludborough
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church Notes: earlier(14thC / 15thC?) church re-built 19thC; redundant 1980; sold as dwelling thereafter
There are four entries for [North] Ormsby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF2893/north-ormsby/] [accessed 7 May 2019] none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) note: "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with quatrefoils and one shield." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF2891593240] describes it as a modern church: "Parish church, now closed, and tomb enclosure. 1848 by S. S. Teulon, in Early English style", from which "All fittings removed apart from C19 pulpit and C15 octagonal font." [NB: the terms "church, now closed" and "fittings removed" refer to the fact that the church became redundant in 1980 and was later sold for use as private dwelling -- the 19th-century re-building by Teulon must have been done on a previous building, at least 15th-century, if the font is indicative of its age -- also in this church, outside, in the churchyard, a 14th-century cross base and fragment of the shaft are reported in a separate entry in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF2891593229]]. [NB: according to the EH entry above the font and pulpit were not removed from the church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.420216, -0.06159
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 25′ 12.78″ N, 0° 3′ 41.72″ W
UTM: 30U 695253 5923040

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989