Grimsby No. 2 / Great Grimsby / Grimesby / Grimsby Abbey / Welhove / Wellow Abbey

INFORMATION

Font ID: 22122GRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Abbey Church of Wellow [aka Grimsby Abbey]
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Augustine & St. Olaf
Church Address: [NB: coordinates given are for Abbey Park [cf. Geo Directions]
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: The site of the disappeared abbey is believed to have been located approximately where Abbey Road and Abbey Drive appear on modern maps of Grimsby
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Lincoln]
Historical Region: Hundred of Bradley
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC abbey church here)
Font Notes:
There are four entries for Grimsby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TA2609/grimsby/] [accessed 29 April 2019] one of which reports a priest and a church in it. The entry for this house of Austin Canons in the Victoria County History (Lincoln, vol. 2, 1906) notes: "The abbey of Wellow was founded, like the priory of Dunstable, by King Henry I, [...] and dedicated to St. Augustine and St. Olaf. [...] There is no evidence at present to determine the exact date of foundation [...] The original endowment of the abbey of Wellow by Henry I consisted of the site in Grimsby, with the church of St. James and divers ponds, mills, &c. [...] It was dissolved before Michaelmas, 1536."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 693322 5938331
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.5582, -0.0812
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 33′ 29.52″ N, 0° 4′ 52.32″ W

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.