South Willingham / Ulingeham
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Results: 4 records
design element - motifs - quatrefoil
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken July 2011, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 7 January 2019]
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view of church exterior - east view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © JThomas, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2013 by JThomas [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3523399] [accessed 7 January 2019]
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view of church exterior - southwest end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Wright, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 June 2006 by David Wright [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/186099] [accessed 7 January 2019]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken July 2011, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 7 January 2019]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 12767WIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Main St, South Willingham, Market Rasen LN8 6NH, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (SW) the A157, 13 km SE of Market Rasen, 16 km N of Horncastle, 18 km W of Louth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Wraggoe
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ken Redmore, Website Editor, the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, for the photograph of this font
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for [South] Willingham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF1983/south-willingham/] [accessed 7 January 2019] none of which mention cleric or church in it. Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) write: "Font. Square with chamfered angles, on nine shafts with fillets. On the bowl two quatrefoils on each side. (A panel with three such quatrefoils is in the chancel N wall)." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF1950083331] notes: "Parish church. Late C13, mid C14, C16, 1838. [...] C15 font heavily restored in C19 with square bowl with 2 large quatrefoils on each side, on tall shaft of 8 filleted columns."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.3336, -0.206
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 20′ 0.96″ N, 0° 12′ 21.6″ W
UTM: 30U 686037 5913022
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: square and flat, with metal ring handle
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989