Coleby nr. Scunthorpe / Colebi
INFORMATION
Font ID: 21810COL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
Church / Chapel Name: [Parish Church?] [disappeared]
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Address: [NB: exact location of the disappeared church not available]
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
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]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the disappeared Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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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