South Thoresby / Toresbi
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design element - patterns - tracery
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1190803003_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital phoptograph taken 5 August 2012 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3102222] [accessed 3 August 2019]
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design element - patterns - tracery - window tracery
Scene Description: the partially visible panel on the right shows window tracery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital phoptograph taken 5 August 2012 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3102222] [accessed 3 August 2019]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "The church of St Andrew was built in the Georgian style in 1738, on the site of a larger building."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 April 2008 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/822937] [accessed 3 August 2019]
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view of church exterior - west view
![Source caption: "St Andrew's church, South Thoresby [...] Built in 1738 when the original church had fallen into decay, and restored 1872."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1190803001_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Andrew's church, South Thoresby [...] Built in 1738 when the original church had fallen into decay, and restored 1872."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012
Image Source: digital phoptograph taken 5 August 2012 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3102200] [accessed 3 August 2019]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Built in 1738 when the original church had fallen into decay, and restored 1872."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012
Image Source: digital phoptograph taken 5 August 2012 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3102204] [accessed 3 August 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012
Image Source: digital phoptograph taken 5 August 2012 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3102222] [accessed 3 August 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 12766THO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Church Ln, South Thoresby, Alford LN13 0AS, UK [the old church is located on Calceby Beck Rd]
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A16, 12-13 km N of Spilsby, 13-14 km SE of Louth, 16 km NE of Horncastle
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Calcewath
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Church Notes: original church ruinous 1735; replaced 1738; restored 1872
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for [South] Thoresby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF4076/south-thoresby/] [accessed 3 August 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) note: "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], of the pattern-book type so frequent around here. Five panels with window patterns, Dec[orated] and Perp[endicular], two with bigger tracery patterns, one now invisible." The entry for the replacement church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF4013977070] notes: "Parish church. 1738, restored 1872. [...] fittings are C19 except for the C14 octagonal font with traceried panels to the bowl."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.272118, 0.10012
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 16′ 19.62″ N, 0° 06′ 00.4″ E
UTM: 31U 306637 5906465
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal pyramid with arrised angles[ cross finial; modern
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989