Walesby nr. Ollerton / Walesbi
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view of church exterior in context - north view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2009 by Alan Heardman [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1512878] [accessed 6 March 2019]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Neal Theasby, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 November 2018 by Neal Theasby [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5975140] [accessed 6 March 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 15531WAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Edmund
Church Patron Saints: St. Edmund the Martyr [aka Edmund of East Anglia]
Church Location: 17 Manor Cl, Walesby, Newark NG22 9NX, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Both Haughton and Walesby are on the B6387, just a few kms NE of Ollerton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham
Historical Region: Hundred of Bassetlaw
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century / 14th century, Medieval
Font Notes:
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There are four entries for this Walesby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK6870/walesby/] [accessed 6 March 2019] none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Cox (1912) reports a Norman tub font in this church. [cf. Index entry for nearby Haughton, with another (?) Norman tub font supposedly moved to Walesby in 1947]. No font mentioned in Pevsner & Williamson (1979). The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK6850170754] notes: "Parish church. C12, C13, C14, C15, partly rebuilt early C16 by
Stanhope family, C17, 1886 and 1925. [...] Round tub font on round stem with water holding base, C14."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.229653, -0.975314
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 13′ 46.75″ N, 0° 58′ 31.13″ W
UTM: 30U 635147 5899731
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912