Scamblesby / Scamelesbi
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view of church exterior - south view
![Source caption: "St Martin's church, Scamblesby. [...] Built in 1893 by R.H. Fowler using parts of older 12th C church. It consists of chancel and nave with north and south aisles and a western bellcote. There is a 12th C font, but the rest is mostly 19th C work."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1190105001_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Martin's church, Scamblesby. [...] Built in 1893 by R.H. Fowler using parts of older 12th C church. It consists of chancel and nave with north and south aisles and a western bellcote. There is a 12th C font, but the rest is mostly 19th C work."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 September 2013 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3651972] [accessed 5 January 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 2019
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 5 January 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 21938SCA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Church Ln, Scamblesby, Louth LN11 9XL, UK -- Tel.: 01507 343631 or 0777 8307892
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the A153, 10 km SW of Louth, 10 km N of Horncastle
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Gartree
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [composite font?], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ken Redmore, Website Editor, and Dean Bird, of the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, for the photograph of this font
Church Notes: church re-built 1890s; some of the materials were taken from Cawkwell St Peter's nearby [Cakwell is now an abandoned village]
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Scamblesby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [folio 350v Great Domesday Book] [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF2778/scamblesby/] [accessed 7 January 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF2762978474] notes: "Parish church. 1893, by R. H. Fowler, re-using some late C12 fragments [...] the easternmost pier in the south arcade is re-used late C12 fabric from the demolished church of Cawkwell, with octagonal, chevroned pier with 4 attached columns. ...] Large C13 drum font with octagonal pedestal with 4 attached shafts." The entry for this church in Explore Churches [www.explorechurches.org/church/st-martin-scamblesby] [accessed 5 January 2018] notes: "The 13th century font is also most unusual. It has a massive and unusual bowl, round at the top with an octagonal pedestal." The original basin may have been re-cut at some point; the columnar base and the plinth are later additions, as is the modern wood cover.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.2879, -0.0869
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 17' 16" N, 0° 5' 12" W
UTM: 30U 694187 5908577
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round-to-octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with carved top; modern