Burgh on Bain / Burgh-on-Bain / Burgh-upon-Bain / Brough-on-Bain

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Results: 5 records

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 October 2005 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/71142] [accessed 14 October 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Source caption: "The church dates from the 11th century onwards, and was restored in 1871. There is a western tower, nave with north and south aisles and chancel. The tower has a battlemented parapet and pinnacles. The clock dates from 1871. There are several fragments of reused masonry in the tower walls including 12th century chevron moulding. The tower arch is 11th century. The nave has north and south aisles with two bays, the south aisle is Early English, the north being a 19th century copy. The nave and aisle walls have carved stone texts. The south doorway is 14th century, and is there are several windows in the south wall from this time. Most of the internal fittings are 19th century, as is the stained glass."

Scene Description: Source caption: "The church dates from the 11th century onwards, and was restored in 1871. There is a western tower, nave with north and south aisles and chancel. The tower has a battlemented parapet and pinnacles. The clock dates from 1871. There are several fragments of reused masonry in the tower walls including 12th century chevron moulding. The tower arch is 11th century. The nave has north and south aisles with two bays, the south aisle is Early English, the north being a 19th century copy. The nave and aisle walls have carved stone texts. The south doorway is 14th century, and is there are several windows in the south wall from this time. Most of the internal fittings are 19th century, as is the stained glass."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2015 by Jules & Jenny [www.flickr.com/photos/78914786@N06/21260546533] [accessed 14 October 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: with the modern font at the far [west] end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2018 by Dean Bird, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 14 October 2018]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover - southeast side

Scene Description: the 19thC font

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover in context - east side

the 19thC font by the tower arch that is described in the CRSBI (2018) entry as "good Romanesque material" [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/765/] [accessed 14 October 2018]

Scene Description: the 19thC font by the tower arch that is described in the CRSBI (2018) entry as "good Romanesque material" [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/765/] [accessed 14 October 2018]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 21841BUR

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Helen

Church Patron Saints: St. Helena

Church Location: Burgh on Bain, Market Rasen LN8 6JY, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A157, 11 km E of Market Raisen, 11 km W of Louth, 31 km NE of Lincoln

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln

Historical Region: Hundred of Wraggoe

Century and Period: 11th century, Norman

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ken Redmore, Website Editor, and Dean Bird, of the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, for the photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view

There is an entry for Burgh [-on-Bain] [varianf spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF2286/burgh-on-bain/] [accessed 14 October 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF2225186406] notes: "Parish church. C11, C13, C14, C16 and restoration 1871/2. [...] All fittings are C19 including stone altar rails, octagonal font and facetted ashlar pulpit."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.3608, -0.164

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 21′ 38.88″ N, 0° 9′ 50.4″ W

UTM: 30U 688712 5916157