Thurlby by Lincoln, St. Germain / Turolfbi / Turulfbi

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Results: 13 records

design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8

Scene Description: on the sides of the stem

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2018 by Dean Bird, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 20 January 2019]

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design element - architectural - buttress - 8

Scene Description: some broken off

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2018 by Dean Bird, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 20 January 2019]

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design element - motifs - floral - 8?

Scene Description: at the angles of the lower basin side; some broken off

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2009 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1387298] [accessed 20 January 2019]

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design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose

Scene Description: seen here on the right panel

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2009 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1387298] [accessed 20 January 2019]

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: of several shapes; two of them seen here to the left of the Tudor rose

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2009 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1387298] [accessed 20 January 2019]

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design element - motifs - varied

Scene Description: floral, foliage, etc.

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2018 by Dean Bird, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 20 January 2019]

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design element - patterns - floral

Scene Description: little florettes inscribed in quadrangular shapes all around the panels of the basin

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2009 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1387298] [accessed 20 January 2019]

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design element - patterns - floral

Scene Description: little florettes inscribed in quadrangular shapes all around the panels of the basin

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2009 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1387298] [accessed 20 January 2019]

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human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose?

Scene Description: seen here in the centre panel

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2018 by Dean Bird, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 20 January 2019]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tim Heaton, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2014 by Tim Heaton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4093710] [accessed 20 January 2019]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior, St Germain's church, Thurlby. Originally 12th C. but little remains. There is a north arcade from about 1300, but was rebuilt in 1820. Restored in 1843".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 July 2011 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4350786] [accessed 20 January 2019]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Lavishly decorated 15th century octagonal font in St.Germain's church".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2009 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1387298] [accessed 20 January 2019]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Perpendicular style font with decoration around the bowl including bold diagonal leaves and flowers also a small figure with outstretched arms."

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2018 by Dean Bird, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 20 January 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12802THU
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Germain
Church Patron Saints: St. Germanus of Auxerre [aka Germans, German, Germain]
Church Location: Haddington Ln, Thurlby by Lincoln LN5 9EG, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (SE) the A46, 1 km SSW of Haddington, 2 km N of Bashingham, 14 km SW of Lincoln, 14 km NE of Newark-on-Trent
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Graffoe
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ken Redmore, Website Editor, and Dean Bird, of the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, for the photograph of this font
There are two entries for this Thurlby [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK9061/thurlby/] [accessed 20 January 2019] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) write: "Font. The normal octagonal Perp[endicular] type, but treated extremely lavishly. Against the bowl three diagonal leaves, three equally bold flowers, one different leaf, and a small figure with outsetretched arms growing Daphne-like into a tree." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK9089561713] notes: "Parish church. 11C, 13C, 15C and 19C. [...] plain Norman doorway pre 1200 [...] Fine 15C octagonal font."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.14492, -0.6423
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 8′ 41.71″ N, 0° 38′ 32.28″ W
UTM: 30U 657683 5890988

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal box-like, with carved sides

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989