Willingham nr. Gainsborough / Welingeham / Wilingeham / Willingham-by-Stow

Results: 3 records

design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

view of church exterior - southeast view

Source caption: "St.Helen's church. Almost entirely by Broderick & Smith in 1880, but look closely to find a tiny Norman window in the tower, Transitional and 13th century doorways and the drum font is unmistakably Norman."
Scene Description: Source caption: "St.Helen's church. Almost entirely by Broderick & Smith in 1880, but look closely to find a tiny Norman window in the tower, Transitional and 13th century doorways and the drum font is unmistakably Norman."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2011 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2569262] [accessed 5 July 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Source caption: "St.Helen's nave. By Broderick & Smith in 1880"
Scene Description: Source caption: "St.Helen's nave. By Broderick & Smith in 1880"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 May 2012 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2942473] [accessed 5 July 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 12837WIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Helen
Church Patron Saints: St. Helena
Church Location: High Street, Willingham, Lincolnshire DN21 5FE
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the B1241, just N of Stow, 10 km SE of Gainsborough
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesed of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Well [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Transitional
Font Notes:
There are five entries for this Willingham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK8784/willingham-by-stow/] [accessed 5 July 2016], none of which mentions a church int; one, however, does mention a priest, Ernwin, as shared lord in 1066, which probably indicates the existence of a church there. Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. Transitional, drum-shaped, with pointed little arches on coupled shafts."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.349278, -0.688517
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 20′ 57.4″ N, 0° 41′ 18.66″ W
UTM: 30U 653858 5913616

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989