Claxby St, Andrew / Clachesbi [Domesday] / Claxby by Alford / Claxby by Willoughby

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view of church exterior - south view

Source caption: "St Andrew's Church, Claxby (by Alford). The church of St Andrew is now a private dwelling."
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Andrew's Church, Claxby (by Alford). The church of St Andrew is now a private dwelling."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 June 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/105503] [accessed 27 December 2018]
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view of church exterior - southwest view

Source caption: "Claxby St Andrews Former Church. No Longer a church".
Scene Description: Source caption: "Claxby St Andrews Former Church. No Longer a church".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Blakeston, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 September 2011 by John Blakeston [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2606411] [accessed 27 December 2018]
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view of church exterior - west portal

Source caption: "St Andrew's Church, Claxby (by Alford). The church of St Andrew is now a private dwelling."
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Andrew's Church, Claxby (by Alford). The church of St Andrew is now a private dwelling."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 June 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/429082] [accessed 27 December 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 21928CLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew [declared redundant 1990 and sold for studio/workshop use]
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Willoughby Rd, Claxby, Alford LN13 0HJ, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the B1196, E of the A1028, 2 km W of Willoughby, 5 km S of Alford [NB: not to be mistaken with Claxby by Normanby, also in Lincs]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Calcewath
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
Church Notes: a church here reported in the Domesday survey; present 1846 building replaced an earlier thatched church; redundant 1990; sold for private use that October
Font Notes:
There are three entries for Claxby [-St-Andrew] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF4571/claxby-st-andrew/] [accessed 27 December 2018, one of which, in the chief tenancy of Hugh, son of Baldric, in 1086, reports a priest and a church in it. The entry for the present church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF4529271479] notes: "Parish church, now disused. 1846. [...] Decorative C19 circular ashlar font. The floor of the chancel is tiled. East nave with brass plaque to Richard Johnson, 1607." [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the 19th-century font when the church became redundant and soldin 1990].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.22037, 0.175
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 13′ 13.33″ N, 0° 10′ 30″ E
UTM: 31U 311402 5900511