Scredington / Scredinctun / Scredintune

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St.Andrew's, Scredington, Lincs. Externally a rebuild of 1869 but with medieval work inside, notably a Decorated three-bay north arcade."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2006

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 7 June 2006 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/182783] [accessed 5 January 2019]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © JThomas, 2012

Image Source: di9gital photograph taken 27 Apruil 2012 by JThomas [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2924286] [accessed 5 January 2019]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Andrew's font has an octagonal base - possibly fifteenth century - but the circular bowl is more recent and decidedly plain."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph taken in June 2017, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 5 January 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 21941SCR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Church Ln, Scredington, Sleaford NG34 0AG, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 2 km off (E) the A15 and Aswarby, 6 km SE of Sleaford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Aswardhurn
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ken Redmore, Website Editor, the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, for the photograph of the font in this church
There are two entries for Scredington in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF0940/scredington/] [accessed 7 January 2019] one of which reports a priest and a church in it. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF0960140403] notes: "Parish church. C15 and 1869. [...] Fittings are C19 including the plain circular tapering tub font." [NB: it is possible the plinth of the font is the original, but the font itself is modern].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.9502, -0.369
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 57′ 0.72″ N, 0° 22′ 8.4″ W
UTM: 30U 676753 5869971