Walmsgate / Walmesgar

INFORMATION

FontID: 21945WAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret [in ruins by 1840 / disappeared by 1870]
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Location: [cf. Directions to site]
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the A16 road, near Burwell, Ketsby and South Ormsby, 11 km SE of Louth, 13 km NW of Alford
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Lincoln]
Historical Region: Hundred of Hill
Century and Period: Medieval
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Walmsgate [variant speliing] in the Dmesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF3677/walmsgate/] [accessed 7 January 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of 1870-1872 reports there was no church in this parish by that time. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF3620477449] notes: "Ruined church. Square limestone rubble. 3 courses only of nave walls and the chancel foundations now survive." The LINCS To The Past site [www.lincstothepast.com/DESERTED-VILLAGE--SITE-OF--AT-WALMSGATE/227208.record?pt=S] [accessed 7 January 2019] reports that the village of Walmsgate is documented in 1377, a priest there was "last instituted about 1435 and that "the small church was still standing in the early 17th century. [...] The remains of a ruinous church at Walmsgate. The building was constructed of square limestone rubble, although only three courses of the nave walls and chancel foundations now survive."