Sixhills No. 1 / Sisse / Six-Hills

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Source caption: "All Saints' [...] parish church, largely 1869 & 1875 by James Fowler, but including and re-using some of the 13th century church" [NB: a church was reported in Sixhills in the Domesday survey]
Scene Description: Source caption: "All Saints' [...] parish church, largely 1869 & 1875 by James Fowler, but including and re-using some of the 13th century church" [NB: a church was reported in Sixhills in the Domesday survey]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 15 October 2017 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5571669] [accessed 7 May 2019]
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view of church exterior - southeast view

Source caption: "All Saints' [...] parish church, largely 1869 & 1875 by James Fowler, but including and re-using some of the 13th century church" [NB: a church was reported in Sixhills in the Domesday survey]
Scene Description: Source caption: "All Saints' [...] parish church, largely 1869 & 1875 by James Fowler, but including and re-using some of the 13th century church" [NB: a church was reported in Sixhills in the Domesday survey]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 17 March 2016 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4868745] [accessed 7 May 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Source caption: "Nave and chancel in All Saints' church [...] with a blocked N arcade of c1300".
Scene Description: Source caption: "Nave and chancel in All Saints' church [...] with a blocked N arcade of c1300".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 October 2017 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5571675] [accessed 7 May 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

Font ID: 12759SIX
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Church Ln, Sixhills, Market Rasen, UK
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A631, 6 km ESE of Market Rasen
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Wraggoe
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the font of the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
There are three entries for Sixhills [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF1787/sixhills/] [accessed 7 May 2019], one of which reports a church in it. Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) note: "Font. Probably of 1869. Chalice-shaped, with roundels depicting the life of Christ." [NB: the original church, "a neat plain structure" according to Lewis' Dictionary of 1848, was "rebuilt by James Fowler in 1869, as reported in Pevsner... (1989). The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF1702387122] notes: "Parish church. Late C13, 1869 and 1875 restoration and rebuilding by James Fowler of Louth [...] Circular C19 chalice shaped font, decorated with 4 roundels depicting scenes from the life of Christ." [NB: we have no information of the font of the original church here].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 683491 5916787
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.3683, -0.242
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 22′ 5.88″ N, 0° 14′ 31.2″ W

REFERENCES

  • Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, p. 643