Bloxholm / Blochesham / Bloxholme
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view of church exterior - southeast view
![Source caption: "St Mary's church, Bloxholm [...] Dating from about 1300 onwards. It was remodelled in 1812 for George Manners of Bloxholm Hall. There is a 3 stage western tower, nave with clerestory and aisles, chancel and south porch. There is a Manners coat of arms in Coade stone over the entrance. The font has a 15th C. bowl. There is a coffin lid in the floor to Robert Glaisierr. In April, 1931, this parish was amalgamated with Ashby de la Launde Civil Parish."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1181008008_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's church, Bloxholm [...] Dating from about 1300 onwards. It was remodelled in 1812 for George Manners of Bloxholm Hall. There is a 3 stage western tower, nave with clerestory and aisles, chancel and south porch. There is a Manners coat of arms in Coade stone over the entrance. The font has a 15th C. bowl. There is a coffin lid in the floor to Robert Glaisierr. In April, 1931, this parish was amalgamated with Ashby de la Launde Civil Parish."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 December 2013 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3774650] [accessed 8 October 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St.Mary's church, Bloxholm, Lincs. A medieval core with 3-bay arcades of c1300 and Gothic restoration of 1812"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robert Croft, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 March 2006 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/132764] [accessed 8 October 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover
Scene Description: one source claims a 15thC basin on a modern base but it is most likely all 19thC [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph dated October 2017, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 8 October 2018]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 21835BLO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Bloxholm, Lincolnshire LN4 3QF, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B1188, 2 km SW of Digby, 15-20 km SSE of Lincoln
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Flaxwell
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th century / 19th century [composite font?], Late Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ken Redmore, Website Editor, of the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, for the photograph of this font
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Bloxholm [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF0653/bloxholm/] [accessed 8 October 2018] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The entry for this church in Historic England [https://historicengland.org.uk/services-skills/grants/visit/st-mary-bloxholm-ln4-3qf/] [accessed 8 October 2018] notes: "The arcades date from around 1300. Rib vaulted ceiling in nave and chancel, as well as other features added by General Manners in 1812" [no font mentioned in it]. The Historic England entry under Listing NGR: TF0646153776, however, notes: "Octagonal C15 bowl and stem font, with cusped decorative panels." The font here is illustrated in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 8 October 2018]; it is in the style of the late-Perpendicular period, but likely to be a 19th-century font introduced by Manners than a 15th-century original [cf. supra].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.06813, -0.412
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 4′ 5.27″ N, 0° 24′ 43.2″ W
UTM: 30U 673392 5882981