Rigsby / Rigesbi / Righesbi

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2012 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3102679] [accessed 1 January 2019]

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2012 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3102679] [accessed 1 January 2019]

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design element - patterns - tracery - window tracery

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2012 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3102679] [accessed 1 January 2019]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: Source caption: "This picture, dated Easter 1863, shows a church built by the Rigsby family sometime prior to 1086. The earlier chalk walled and thatched roofed structure was supported by props. They also built a similar one at Tothby. The Rigsby church was converted to a chapelry in 1195 by Robert de Welle and given by Gilbert de Rigsby to the Gilbertine Priory of St Katherine at Lincoln, to which it belonged for over 300 years. The present church was built when the earlier church was photographed, in 1863."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2008

Image Source: digital image taken 18 April 2008 by Dave Hitchborne of a 1863 photograph [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/830228] [accessed 1 January 2019]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2008

Image Source: digital image taken 18 April 2008 by Dave Hitchborne of a 1863 photograph [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/830210] [accessed 1 January 2019]

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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St James' church, Rigsby. Believed to be the first church of Alford and Rigsby, most probably Saxon, sequestrated by William the Conqueror and as with much of the area, given to Bishop Odo of Bayeux (his half brother). Converted to a Chapelry by Robert de Welle in 1195, and given by Gilbert de Rigsby to the Gilbertine Priory of St Katherine at Lincoln. [...] The present building of Ancaster stone dates from 1863".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2012 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3102510] [accessed 1 January 2019]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "The present building of Ancaster stone dates from 1863, was designed by James Fowler, and was erected at a cost of £685. [...] The inner portions of the doorway of the West frond and the arch from the nave to the vestry are remnants of the original Normal building."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2012 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3102511] [accessed 1 January 2019]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2008

Image Source: digital image taken 18 April 2008 by Dave Hitchborne of a 1863 photograph [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/838232] [accessed 1 January 2019]

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view of church interior - nave - north wall - vestry doorway

Scene Description: said to be a re-used early-12thC Norman arch

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2008

Image Source: digital image taken 18 April 2008 by Dave Hitchborne of a 1863 photograph [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/838247] [accessed 1 January 2019]

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view of font - south side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2012 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3102679] [accessed 1 January 2019]

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view of font in context - southwest side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2008

Image Source: digital image taken 18 April 2008 by Dave Hitchborne of a 1863 photograph [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/832724] [accessed 1 January 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12746RIG
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Church Location: Rigsby, Alford LN13 0AL, UK -- Tel.: +44 1507 463404
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A1104, E of the A16, 2-3 km WSW of Alford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Calcewath
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, In the nave
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
There are three entries for Rigsby [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF4275/rigsby/] [accessed 7 January 2019] one of which reports a priest and a church in it. Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) note: "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], each side with three thin cusped arches and above them six little panels of panel tracery, also cusped arches." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF4309075387] notes: "Parish church. 1863 by James Fowler in the Neo-Norman style. [...] The north door to the vestry is a re-used C12 round headed arch with chamfered imposts. [...] Good C14 octagonal font with moulded base, trefoil traceried panels to the bowl."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.256249, 0.14358
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 15′ 22.49″ N, 0° 8′ 36.89″ E
UTM: 31U 309464 5904584

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989