Waddington nr. Lincoln / Wadintune
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view of church exterior - detail
Scene Description: remains of the destroyed church?
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Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph in the National Churches Trust [www.nationalchurchestrust.org/sites/default/files/styles/item_image_custom_user_desktop_1x/public/LincolnshireWADDINGTONStMichael(lincolndiocesanguildchurchbellringers).jpg?itok=rSrDnabM] [accessed 20 January 2019] LINK BROKEN [404 error message]
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view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/119661] [accessed 20 January 2019] writes: "St.Michael's church, Waddington, Lincs. The medieval church was destroyed during the second world war - apparently by a stray German bomb intended for RAF Waddington. The new church built 1952-4 by R.Corless of Skipper & Corless of Lowestoft has all the essential components .... nave, chancel, west tower, big windows, but not the soul of its predecessor."
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 May 2007 by PCPaul [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waddington_Lincolnshire_Church.jpg] [accessed 20 January 2019]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Waddington, St Michael, Font. Was this font salvaged from the 12th-century church destroyed in a Second World War air raid on the night of 8 May 1941?" [NB: this font would not be from the 12thC church or its earlier iteration ca. 1086; was it a later addition to the medieval church?]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 April 2018 by Dean Bird, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 20 January 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 21958WAD
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels
Church Location: [NB: address & coordinates are for the new church] 7 High St, Waddington, Lincoln LN5 9RF, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: The new church is located off the A607, 4-5 km S of Lincoln city centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Boothby
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
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 the font in the new church
Church Notes: medieval church re-built 1721; destroyed in WWII bombing; re-built 1954 -- present font is a transfer from East Allington St James, near Grantham
There is an entry for this Waddington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK9764/waddington/] [accessed 20 January 2019]; it reports a priest and a church in it. The church here was described as possessing "but little architectural beauty" in Thomas Allen's History of the County of Lincoln (London, 1834), vol. I, p. 209, by which time it had already been re-built, but we have no information whether the font of the Domesday-time church had been retained in the re-building or not. That church would be completely destroyed in WWII. A stone font in the new church is noted and illustrated in the SLHA site [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 20 January 2019], with a question on whether it had survived the destruction of the church in WWII [NB: email sent to Waddington parish asking for information 20 Jan 2019 //mt -- replies received 23 and 25 January 2019 from churchwarden Jo Duffield: "The font did not survive the WW2 bombing [...] the present font [...] came from St James' Church, East Allington (near Grantham, Lincolnshire). The church was 13th century, and had been declared redundant (presumably before 1954, when our new church of St Michael's was consecrated)."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
53.1655,
-0.541
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
53° 9′ 55.8″ N,
0° 32′ 27.6″ W
UTM: 30U 664379 5893505