Gressingham / Gersingeham / Gersingham / Ghersinctune / Kersingeham
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design element - motifs - moulding
![FONT NE SIDE digital photograph taken 5 July 2017 by Stephen Craven [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5481052] [accessed 2 April 2019] Source caption: "St John the Evangelist, Gressingham: font. The font is a fairly plain one whose age is hard to determine, but it appears to have been sat on a column of a different type of stone."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1190402008_compressed.png)
Scene Description: FONT NE SIDE digital photograph taken 5 July 2017 by Stephen Craven [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5481052] [accessed 2 April 2019] Source caption: "St John the Evangelist, Gressingham: font. The font is a fairly plain one whose age is hard to determine, but it appears to have been sat on a column of a different type of stone."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stephen Craven, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 5 July 2017 by Stephen Craven [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5481052] [accessed 2 April 2019]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Platt, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 March 2015 by Philip Platt [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4390298] [accessed 2 April 2019]
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view of church exterior - south portal
![Source caption: "St John the Evangelist, Gressingham: south porch. A classic Norman design with concentric semi-circular arches and chevron carvings." [NB: more details on the portal at https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/5023/]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1190402003_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "St John the Evangelist, Gressingham: south porch. A classic Norman design with concentric semi-circular arches and chevron carvings." [NB: more details on the portal at https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/5023/]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stephen Craven, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 July 2017 by Stephen Craven [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5481008] [accessed 2 April 2019]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Platt, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 March 2015 by Philip Platt [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4390295] [accessed 2 April 2019]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stephen Craven, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 July 2017 by Stephen Craven [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5481012] [accessed 2 April 2019]
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view of font - northeast side
Scene Description: Source caption: "St John the Evangelist, Gressingham: font. The font is a fairly plain one whose age is hard to determine, but it appears to have been sat on a column of a different type of stone."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stephen Craven, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 July 2017 by Stephen Craven [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5481052] [accessed 2 April 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font in context
Scene Description: at the west end of the south aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2017 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5516766] [accessed 2 April 2019]
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view of font in context - west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander p Kapp, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2012 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2900359] [accessed 2 April 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 16508GRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Evangelists
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Evangelist
Church Location: Gressingham, Lancaster LA2 8LP, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lancashire, North West
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A683 and the Lune river, 3 km NW of Hornby, 13 km NE of Lancaster
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Blackburn
Historical Region: Hundred of Lonsdale -- Hundred of Amounderness [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the tower
Century and Period: Medieval [composite]
Church Notes: 12thC church
Font Notes:
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Gressingham [variant spelling] appears, together with over a dozen other places, in an entry in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SD5769/gressingham/] [accessed 2 April 2019]; it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this church in the Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 8, 1914) notes: "The chapel of Gressingham, which originally belonged to Melling, ([...] was given by Roger de Montbegon, lord of Hornby, who died in 1225–6, to the abbey of St. Martin at See [...] A graveyard was consecrated in 1230 [...] The building was 'restored,' or perhaps rebuilt, in 1734, […] and was further altered in 1862 […] The font, which stands under the tower, is plain and may be ancient." In Hartwell ( Pevsner (2009): A very simple bowl with a moulded rim set on a later base." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SD5725469916] notes: "Church, Perpendicular with C12th remains, partly rebuilt 1734, restored 1862 by Paley"; no font mentioned.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.1233, -2.6556
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 7′ 23.88″ N, 2° 39′ 20.16″ W
UTM: 30U 522508 5997295
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat, round and plain
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-05-10 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Hartwell, Clare, Lancashire North, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2009