Welton le Marsh / Waletone / Weletune / Welton-in-the-Marsh

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design element - patterns - crenellated

Font, St Martin's Church, Welton Le Marsh. The church has a medieval base and was rebuilt in later 18th C. in red brick. Western tower. The inside is very plain with a 15th C octagonal font."
Scene Description: Font, St Martin's Church, Welton Le Marsh. The church has a medieval base and was rebuilt in later 18th C. in red brick. Western tower. The inside is very plain with a 15th C octagonal font."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J.Hannan-Briggs, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 29 July 2012 by J.Hannan-Briggs [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3059917] [axxessed 12 November 2023]
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view of church exterior - south view

Source caption: "St Martin's Church, Welton Le Marsh. The church has a medieval base and was rebuilt in later 18th C. in red brick. Western tower. The inside is very plain with a 15th C octagonal font."
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Martin's Church, Welton Le Marsh. The church has a medieval base and was rebuilt in later 18th C. in red brick. Western tower. The inside is very plain with a 15th C octagonal font."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J.Hannan-Briggs, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 29 July 2012 by J.Hannan-Briggs [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3059909] [axxessed 12 November 2023]
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view of church interior - looking east

Source caption: "St Martin's Church, Welton Le Marsh. The church has a medieval base and was rebuilt in later 18th C. in red brick. Western tower. The inside is very plain with a 15th C octagonal font."
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Martin's Church, Welton Le Marsh. The church has a medieval base and was rebuilt in later 18th C. in red brick. Western tower. The inside is very plain with a 15th C octagonal font."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J.Hannan-Briggs, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 29 July 2012 by J.Hannan-Briggs [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3059922] [axxessed 12 November 2023]
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view of font

Source caption: "Font, St Martin's Church, Welton Le Marsh. The church has a medieval base and was rebuilt in later 18th C. in red brick. Western tower. The inside is very plain with a 15th C octagonal font."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Font, St Martin's Church, Welton Le Marsh. The church has a medieval base and was rebuilt in later 18th C. in red brick. Western tower. The inside is very plain with a 15th C octagonal font."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J.Hannan-Briggs, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 29 July 2012 by J.Hannan-Briggs [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3059917] [axxessed 12 November 2023]
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view of font

Source caption: "St.Martin's font. Damaged 15th century bowl on a 19th century base in St.Martin's church. Reputedly found in a field in 1912 being used as a cattle trough."
Scene Description: Source caption: "St.Martin's font. Damaged 15th century bowl on a 19th century base in St.Martin's church. Reputedly found in a field in 1912 being used as a cattle trough."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 15 June 2009 by Richard Croft [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1395586] [accessed 12 November 2023]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 12821WEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Welton le Marsh, Spilsby PE23 5TA, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1754 810216
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 10 km ENE of Spilsby
Historical Region: Hundred of Candleshoe [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes:
There are three entries for Welton le Marsh [variant spellings] in the Domesday Survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF4768/welton-le-marsh/] [accessed 12 November 2023]; they mention neither priest nor church in it. The listing for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF4704768808] notes: "Parish church. Medieval base, rebuilt late C18, altered 1891 [...] C15 octagonal crenellated font and late C18 font." Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) write: "Fonts. One octagonal, Perp[endicular], crenellated, the other a job of the time when the church was built" [NB: this last note on the building of the church must refer to the construction of the "new edifice of brick [...] raised in 1792", as recorded in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 -- based on that assumption the latter font is not included in this Index on account of its late date]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.1955, 0.201
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 11′ 43.8″ N, 0° 12′ 3.6″ E
UTM: 31U 313029 5897677

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989