Dunston nr. Lincoln / Dunestune
Image copyright © Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 2018
Standing permission
Results: 2 records
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 July 2011 by J. Hannan0Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2513447] [accessed 31 October 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Marble font presumably dating from the 1874-6 rebuild."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2018 by Dean Bird, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 31 October 2018]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 21857DUN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Vicarage Lane, Dunston, Lincoln LN4 2EN, UK -- Tel.: 01526 320946
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (SE) the B1188-B1202 crossroads, 11 km SE of Lincoln
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Langoe
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
Font Notes:
Click to view
There is an entry for this Dunston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF0662/dunston/] [accessed 31 October 2018]; it reports a priest and a church in it. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF0628262947] notes: "Parish Church. C12, restored 1874-6 by R H Carpenter. [...] Plain C19 fittings." The present font is modern, a round basin on clustered columns and a wide circular plinth; wound wooden cover, plain, with ring handle; both the font and the cover are modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.1531, -0.411
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 9′ 11.16″ N, 0° 24′ 39.6″ W
UTM: 30U 673117 5892433