Alford / Alforde
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2013 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3563296] [accessed 31 January 2018]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 21604ALF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Wilfrid
Church Patron Saints: St. Wilfrid [aka Wilfred, Wilfrith]
Church Location: 17 High St, Alford LN13 9DS, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the A1104-A1111 crossroads, 18 km NW of Skegness
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Calcewath
Date: ca. 1350?
Century and Period: 14th century (mid?), Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Church Notes: church mid-14thC may have replaced an earlier wooden building; restored 1860
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for this Alford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TF4576/alford/] [accessed 31 January 2018], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The entry for this church in British Listed Buildings [Listing NGR: TF4554876066All] notes: "fittings and font are C19 apart from the rood screen and pulpit". It is an octagonal basin raised on a marble base, and was introduced in Sir Gilbert Scott's mid-19th century restoration of this church. [NB: we have no information on the font of the mid-14th century church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.261221, 0.180483
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 15′ 40.4″ N, 0° 10′ 49.74″ E
UTM: 31U 311947 5905039