Sutton-on-Sea / Sutton-in-the-Marsh / Sutton-le-Marsh

Results: 2 records

design element - architectural - window

Scene Description: [cf.Font notes]

view of church exterior

Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Clements Church, Sutton on Sea, Lincolnshire" -- this church of 1818-1819 replaced on a new site the one destroyed by the sea

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Readman, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph 6 May 2006 by John Readman [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/173313] [accessed 31 December 2022]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 12793SUT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Clement
Church Patron Saints: St. Clement
Church Location: Church Lane, Sutton on Sea, Mablethorpe LN12 2JB, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1507 443948
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located at the A52-A1111 cross-roads, 3 km S of Marblethorpe, about 20 km ESE of Louth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Church Notes: present church 1818-1819 replaced the earlier one destroyed by the sea on a new site
Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. Octagonal, of the pattern-book type, with blank windows all Dec[orated]; so the font probably is Dec[orated]." The entry for this church in British Listed Buildings [Listing NGR: TF5211480903] notes: "The church was rebuilt on a new site after the old church was destroyed by the sea [...] church. 1818-19, 1860, 1907 additions. [...] C14 octagonal font has cusped traceried panels to the sides and a moulded base."

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 318802 5910345

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989