Willoughby-on-the-Wolds / Wilgebi / Willebi / Willoughby on the Wolds / Wilsebi

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 February 2013 by J.Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3344443] [accessed 12 February 2015]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 15516WIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1340-1350?
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (mid?), Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary and All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin & All Saints
Church Address: Church Lane, Willoughby-on-the-Wolds, Nottinghamshire, LE12 6SS
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A46, 17 km ESE of Nottingham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham
Historical Region: Hundred of Broxtowe [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
There are six entries for Willoughby[-on-the-Wolds] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SK6325/willoughby-on-the-wolds/] [accessed 12 February 2015], neither of which reports a church in it; a cleric, "Enwin, the priest" is mentioned here, once as lord and once as lord and tenant in chief. A font here is noted in Kelly's Directory of 1881: "The font is said to be Norman". Noted in Balay (1902) as a font of the mid-13th century. Cox (1912), however, puts the "small octagonal font" in a later period, ca. 1340. Walker (1938) notes: "The octagonal font is not of great interest, and dates from about 1350." In Pevsner & Williamson (1979): "Octagonal, with simple trefoil panels."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 630664 5854318
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.822778, -1.060833
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 49′ 22″ N, 1° 3′ 39″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

  • "The Spring excursion, 1902 [Wysall and Willoghby-on-the-Wolds]", 6 (1902), Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 1902
  • Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 234 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 20 October 2009]
  • Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, London: Kelly & Co., 1881, p. 317
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979, p. 379
  • Walker, J. Holland, "Church of St. Mary, Willoughby-on-the-Wolds", 42 (1938), Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 1938