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

Results: 2 records

design element - motifs - panel - trefoiled

view of church exterior - southeast view

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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 15516WIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary and All Saints
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & All Saints
Church Location: Church Lane, Willoughby-on-the-Wolds, Nottinghamshire, LE12 6SS
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
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 Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1340-1350?
Century and Period: 14th century (mid?), Decorated
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

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

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
Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, London: Kelly & Co., 1881
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979
Walker, J. Holland, "Church of St. Mary, Willoughby-on-the-Wolds", 42 (1938), Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 1938