Coleby nr. Scunthorpe / Colebi

INFORMATION

FontID: 21810COL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church/Chapel: [Parish Church?] [disappeared]

Church Location: [NB: exact location of the disappeared church not available]

Country Name: England

Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: This Coleby is a hamlet in the civil parish of West Halton in North Lincs,; located off (W) Grantham Rd, 11 km N of Scunthorpe [NB: there is another Coleby 10 km S of Lincoln]

Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Lincoln]

Historical Region: Hundred of Boothby [in Domesday]

Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman

Font Notes: Click to view

There are four entries for this Coleby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK9760/coleby/] [accessed 7 September 2018]; of the four, the one in the lordship of Siward in 1066, King William's in 1086, reports a priest and, "1 church. 0.12 church lands" in it. [NB: we have not been able to locate any recent information on the disappeared church or its site].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 655919 5948949