Ketsby / Chetelesbi
INFORMATION
FontID: 21943KET
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret [disappeared by 1888]
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Location: [cf. Directions-Geo]
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located near South Ormsbt, off (W) the A16, 8-9 km W of Alford, 25 km NW of Skegness (dir. Louth)
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Lincoln]
Historical Region: Hundred of Hill
Century and Period: Medieval
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Ketsby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF3676/ketsby/] [accessed 7 January 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this hamlet in Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-1872) notes: "It was anciently a parish; and it still ranks as a rectory, annexed to the rectory of South Ormsby, in the diocese of Lincoln." A.R. Maddison's Lincolnshire Wills: First Series A.D. 1500-1600 (Lincoln, 1888), pp. 16-17, mentions the 26 June 1534 will of John Cocke, "parson of Ketsby", which Maddison footnotes: "Ketsby is a hamlet in the parish of South Ormsby. The Church has long since disappeared." A late medieval (13th-15thC) pilgrim badge made of lead found in or near Hogsthorpe, is reported to have been associated with the cult of St. Margaret of Antioch at the Church of St. Margaret in Ketsby [source: Adam Daubney's 50 Finds From Lincolnshire: Objects from the Portable Antiquities Scheme (Stroud: Amberley Publishing, 2016), entry no. 46
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 303364 5906203