Humberston / Humberstone / Humbrestone

INFORMATION

FontID: 22098HUM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Abbey Church of St. Mary and St. Peter [disappeared]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Peter
Church Location: [Church Ave, Humberston, Grimsby DN36 4DA, UK]
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: The disappeared abbey was located off (E) the A1031, 2 km SW of Grimsby
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Lincoln]
Historical Region: Hundred of Bradley
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Church Notes: 12thC abbey of the Order of Tiron; destroyed by fire ca. 1305; re-built; decame Benedictine early-15thC
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Humberstone [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TA3105/humberston/] [accessed 17 April 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this abbey in the Victoria County History (Lincoln, vol. 2, 1906) notes: "The abbey of Humberston was founded probably during the reign of Henry II [i.e., 1154-1189] [...] The abbey was regularly visited by the bishops of Lincoln, and seems to have been more than once in an unsatisfactory condition", but a 1519 episcopal visitation found the "buildings of the monastery were in good repair, and there was no debt; all the furniture of the church and altar too was good and sufficient." Dissolved at the Dissolution. The present Church of St Peter, a re-building of ca. 1710 is near the site of the old abbey grounds.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.53406, -0.02596
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 32′ 2.62″ N, 0° 1′ 33.46″ W
UTM: 30U 697091 5935798

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-04-17 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.