Cawkwell / Calcheuuelle / Calchewelle / Calkwell
INFORMATION
Font ID: 21939CAW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter [demolished]
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: Domesday church; further documented ca. 1354; still standing in 1872; disappeared by 1924 [some of its materials re-used in nearby Scamblesby St Martin's re-building]
Church Address: [approximate location of the abandoned hamlet: A153, Louth LN11 9SG, UK]
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A53, just NE of Scamblesby, 10 km SW of Louth, 10 km N of Horncastle
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Lincoln]
Historical Region: Hundred of Gartree
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Cawkwell [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF2879/cawkwell/] [accessed 7 January 2019] one of which reports a priest and a church in it. The parish of Cawkwell, with the Church of St. Peter appears listed as a vicarage in the Liber Regis of 1786, and in the Liber Ecclesiasticus of June 1835. The entry for this hamlet in Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of 1848 reorts: "The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £4. 8. 6½.; net income, £46, arising from land; patron and impropriator, the Earl of Yarborough. The church is a small neat edifice." The entry for this site in Historic England [www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=352878#aD] [accessed 5 January 2019] notes: "Cawkwell is mentioned in 1354, and a priest was last instituted about 1521-47. The church was still standing in 1872 but had gone by 1924. Beresford gives an approximate grid reference: TF 282800. [...] Nothing identifiable as the remains of St Peter's Church were visible on the available air photographs."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 694666 5909528
REFERENCES
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1848-1849, [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-dict/england/pp538-542] [accessed 5 January 2019]