Partney / Bardney / Partenai / Partene
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view of font in context - southeast side
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design element - patterns - tracery - varied
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "The Church of St Nicholas, Partney. The oldest parts of the church are at least 650 years old. The chancel was rebuilt in 1828, the nave and aisles 1862 and the tower in 1910. The weather vane, in the form of a ship, is in honour St Nicholas, the patron saint of seamen, and was put up in 1952. There is a statue of St Nicholas above the entrance door."
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view of font in context - southwest side
Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior of the Church of St Nicholas, Partney. Looking beyond the church font to the north aisle."
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior of the Church of St Nicholas, Partney. Looking through the nave, with its north and south aisles, to the chancel."
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design element - architectural - arch or window - varied - 8
Scene Description: some quatrefoiled, some cinquefoiled, etc.
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 May 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/717062] [accessed 1 January 2019]
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 May 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/717062] [accessed 1 January 2019]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12739PAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Notes: there may have been a monastery here in the 7thC, believed to have been destroyed by Vikings ca. 870 [www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=355346] [accessed 1 January 2018] and VCH (Lincoln, vol. 2, 1906: 104-105)
Church Address: Church Ln, Partney, Spilsby PE23 4PQ, UK
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A16-A158 crossroads, 5 km NNE of Spilsby
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Candleshoe
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 13th-14thC here -- perhaps another one from the 7th-9thC monastery church here?)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Partney [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF4168/partney/] [accessed 7 January 2019] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The entry for Partney in the History of the County of Lincoln: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time (London: John Saunders Jr., vol. 2, 1834, p. 145 notes: "The font is octagonal and quite plain." The entry in William White's History, Gazetteer and Directory of Lincolnshire, [...], 3rd ed., 1872 . Reports "an ancient font" in its church, which White dates to the reign of Edward I or II [i.e., 1272-1320]. Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) note: "Font. Octagonal, of the pattern-book type, the patterns all Dec[orated] except for one which is Perp[endicular]." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF4104268367] notes: "Parish church. C14, C15, chancel rebuilt 1828, nave and aisles rebuilt and porch built c.1862 by C. E. Giles, tower part rebuilt 1910. [...] Octagonal C15 ashlar font, bowl and pedestal decorated with blind tracery." [NB: the description in the earlier sources does not match that of the later sources [cf. supra]].
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 306990 5897712
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.19366, 0.1107
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 11′ 37.18″ N, 0° 6′ 38.52″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989, p. 600