Revesby nr. Woodhall Spa
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Scene Description: Source caption: "12th century pillar piscina in St.Lawrence's church [...] reputedly from the site of Revesby Abbey, now re-used as a font."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 April 2013 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3419010] [accessed 23 April 2019]
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design element - patterns - scalloped - trumpet scallops
Scene Description: smaller than the ones below
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 April 2013 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3419010] [accessed 23 April 2019]
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design element - patterns - scalloped - trumpet scallops
Scene Description: larger than the ones above
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 April 2013 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3419010] [accessed 23 April 2019]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: between the two rows of scallops
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 April 2013 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3419010] [accessed 23 April 2019]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 April 2013 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3419010] [accessed 23 April 2019]
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view of church exterior in context - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Hoare, 2013
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 11 October 2013 by Richard Hoare [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3699959] [accessed 23 April 2019]
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
![Source caption: "St Lawrence's church, Revesby [...] The church was built in 1891 by C Hodgson Fowler in the decorated style on the site of a previous church built in 1733. That church was built on the site of an even earlier church."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1190423002_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Lawrence's church, Revesby [...] The church was built in 1891 by C Hodgson Fowler in the decorated style on the site of a previous church built in 1733. That church was built on the site of an even earlier church."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 April 2013 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3430408] [accessed 23 April 2019]
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view of church interior - lapidarium
Scene Description: Source caption: "Revesby Abbey remains. Fragments of re-set masonry in the tower of St.Lawrence's church, from the site of Revesby Abbey, founded 1142, dissolved 1539".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2013
Image Source: digital photograpjh taken 19 April 2013 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3418991] [accessed 23 April 2019]
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view of church interior - mosaic
![Source caption: "Revesby Abbey remains. Medieval floor tiles re-set in the ringing chamber of St.Lawrence's tower [...] from the site of Revesby Abbey, founded 1142, dissolved 1539."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1190423006_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Revesby Abbey remains. Medieval floor tiles re-set in the ringing chamber of St.Lawrence's tower [...] from the site of Revesby Abbey, founded 1142, dissolved 1539."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 April 2013 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3418999] [accessed 23 April 2019]
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view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rihard Croft, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 April 2013 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3418986] [accessed 23 April 2019]
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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with bases - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 April 2013 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3419010] [accessed 23 April 2019]
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 April 2013 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3419010] [accessed 23 April 2019]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 22107REV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Lawrence
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Notes: was the original church one of the two mentioned in the Domesday survey entry for Revesby? earliest parish register is 1595; re-built 1733; re-built 1891
Church Address: Blackey Ln, Revesby, Boston PE22. UK
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A155, 13 km E of Woodhall Spa, 23 km N of Boston
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesed of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Bolingbroke
Additional Comments: re-cycled piscina / moved font (may have been originally a pillar piscina at Revesby Abbey; later moved to the parish church and used as font) -- disappeared font? (the one from the original Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Revesby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF2961/revesby/] [accessed 23 April 2019]; it reports two churches in it. The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: TF2984161411] notes: "Parish church. 1891 by C. Hodgson Fowler in the Decorated style. [...] In the south wall of the tower a niche formed of reset early C13 mouldings contains a collection of moulded stone fragments from Revesby Abbey. [...] The disappointing font comprises a section of reused medieval moulded shaft with a cushion capital top." What the EH above does not explain is that the font here is said to be originally the pillar piscina from the disappeared church at nearby Revesby Abbey; it consists of quadrangular basin with two levels of trumpeted scallops on the sides, with a moulding between them; the pedestal base is made of clustered colonnettes with moulded bases, and the lower base is quadrangular and moulded; it appears to be monolithic. No cover present.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 696600 5891257
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.1344, -0.061
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 8′ 3.84″ N, 0° 3′ 39.6″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one?
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square