Askham / Ascam / Ascham

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view of church exterior - northwest view
view of church exterior - southeast view
view of church exterior - southeast view
view of church interior - nave - looking east
![with the modern font and cover in the foreground, left [north] side](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1160602004_compressed.png)
Scene Description: with the modern font and cover in the foreground, left [north] side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alan Murray-Rust, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 August 2014 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4129527] [accessed 2 June 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 19385ASK
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas
Church Location: Church Lane, Askham, Nottinghamshire NG22 0RS
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 5 km WNW of Tuxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham
Historical Region: Hundred of Bassetlaw
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Robert Wilkes for his drawing of this church
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There is an entry for this Askham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SK7474/askham/] [accesed 27 July 2014], and it reports a priest and a church in it. English Heritage (1967) [Listing NGR: SK7397375000] dates the south nave as the earliest part of the church to the 12th century; the font is reported as 20th-century.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
53.266667,
-0.892222
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
53° 16′ 0″ N,
0° 53′ 32″ W
UTM: 30U 640572 5904008