Minting No. 1 / Mentinges / Mentinghes

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "The church dates from around 1200, with further work in the 15th century. It was restored in 1863".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 May 2016 by Jules & Jenny [www.flickr.com/photos/78914786@N06/27433456765] [accessed 14 May 2019]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: the modern font and cover in use in this church in the foreground

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 May 2006 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4951828] [accessed 14 May 2019]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "An early octagonal font, which was dug out from below the altar, in 1930. The origins of the Grade 2* listed church date from around 1200 with additions in the 15th century, but mostly it comprises an 1863 restoration".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4379366] [accessed 14 May 2019]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font and cover in use in this church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4379354] [accessed 14 May 2019]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the modern font and cover in use in this church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4379366] [accessed 14 May 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 22156MIN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: Church Ln, Minting, Lincolnshire LN9 5RS , UK

Country Name: England

Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (SW)the A158, NE of Gautby, 7-8 km NW of Horncastle

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln

Historical Region: Hundred of Gartree

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]

Date: ca. 1200?

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque / Transitional?

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Minting [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF1873/minting/] [accessed 14 May 2019] neither of which mentions a church in it, although one of them lists "William the priest" as its lord in 1086. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF1871673453] notes: "Parish church. c1200, C15, 1863 restoration [...] On the floor below the northern panel is the cut down roughly hewn bowl of an early octagonal font"; the entry also mentions a modern, 19th-century font in use. There are two fonts in this church now [2018]: the one in use is located a the west enf of the nave and is modern, an octagonal basin with a rounded underbowl on a plain octagonal pedestal base and a moulde lower base, also octagonal. It has a wooden cover, pyramidal in shape, also octagonal. The old font, said to have been dug up from under the altar area, is an octagonal basin with plain vertical sides, rounded underbowl, raised on a short circular base; it is much damaged, as could be expected from a discarded and buried font.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.24485, -0.2222

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 14′ 41.46″ N, 0° 13′ 19.92″ W

UTM: 30U 685342 5903110

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: no lining