North Reston / Ristone

Results: 2 records

design element - motifs - niche - cusped niche

Scene Description: the modern font? [cf. Font notes]

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St.Edith's church, North Reston. Mostly by R.J.Withers 1868-9 but re-using Norman and Medieval masonry"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2007 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/465897] [accessed 28 July 2019]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 12731RES

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Edith

Church Patron Saints: St. Edith

Church Location: Church Ln, North Reston, Louth LN11 8JD, UK -- Tel.: +44 507 603008 / +44 507 610247

Country Name: England

Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located on the A157, SW of Louth

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln

Historical Region: Hundred of Louthesk

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman

Font Notes: Click to view

There is an entry for [North] Reston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF3883/north-reston/] [accessed 28 July 2019]; it reports a church in it. Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) notes: "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with on each side three cusped niches and above them, as tracery, six tiny ones." [NB: the font described in Pevsner... must be modern]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF3828483728] notes: "Parish church, now closed. C11, largely rebuilt 1868 by R. T. Withers, with some reused early medieval material. [...] All fittings are C19."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.33255, 0.0752

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 19′ 57.18″ N, 0° 4′ 30.72″ E

UTM: 31U 305251 5913254

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989