Lincoln No. 5 / Lincolia
Results: 3 records
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14101LIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas [demolished 1643]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Notes: original church 12thC; re-built ca. 1280; demolished 1643; re-built 1840 on a new site
Church Address: demolished church was located at Sastan's (aka Saxtan's) Gate at the present corner of Newport and Church Lane
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Old church was located at the present corner of Newport and Church Lane
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Lincoln]
Historical Region: Hundred of Lawress
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the medieval church was demolished mid-17thC)
Town/City Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln,_England
Font Notes:
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There are thirteen entries for Lincoln [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK9771/lincoln/] [accessed 16 December 2018]; one of the entries reports a church in it; another, two churches; a third, two churches; a total of five churches in the twelve entries. [NB: we have no information on the font of the church here demolished in mid-17thC]. The modern church of St. Nicholas has a 19th-century stone font in it.
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UTM: 30U 664324 5901551