Willoughton / Willchetone
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font of the 20thC
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of church exterior - north view
![Source caption: "St Andrew's Church, Willoughton [...] The only medieval features that remain of this church are the chancel and the remains of the perpendicular two-light south window in the chancel. In 1146 Empress Maud, daughter of Henry I and mother of Henry II gave the church to the Abbey of St Nicholas of Angers. The moiety of the church was passed to the Knights Templar by Simon de Clancy in 1212. [...] between December 1793 and 18th January 1794, it was pulled down with the chancel being the only part of the original church to be retained during rebuilding."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1190515001_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Andrew's Church, Willoughton [...] The only medieval features that remain of this church are the chancel and the remains of the perpendicular two-light south window in the chancel. In 1146 Empress Maud, daughter of Henry I and mother of Henry II gave the church to the Abbey of St Nicholas of Angers. The moiety of the church was passed to the Knights Templar by Simon de Clancy in 1212. [...] between December 1793 and 18th January 1794, it was pulled down with the chancel being the only part of the original church to be retained during rebuilding."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 8 July 2012 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3032082] [accessed 15 May 2019]
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view of church interior - looking west
![view from the chancel; partly visible at the far [west] end, left [south] side, is the modern font](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1190515004_compressed.png)
Scene Description: view from the chancel; partly visible at the far [west] end, left [south] side, is the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ian S, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2018 by Ian S [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5910211] [accessed 15 May 2019]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 July 2012 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3032088] [accessed 15 May 2019]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 22159WIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Notes: the moiety of the early church here "was granted by the Empress Maud to the Benedictine Abbey of St. Nicholas, Angers, [...] and the priory [alien priory of Willoughton] was probably built some time during the twelfth century" (VCH, vol. 2, 1906: 241)
Church Address: Church St, Willoughton, Gainsborough DN21 5SD, UK
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B1398, NW of the A15-A631 crossroads, 14-15 km WENE of Gainsborough, 25-30 km N of Lincoln
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Aslacoe
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here) [was there a church in the short-lived medieval priory here? a font therefore?]
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Willoughton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK9393/willoughton/] [accessed 15 May 2019] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The entry for the alien priory of Willoughton in the Victoria County History (Lincoln, vol. 2, 1906) notes: "The manor and the moiety of the church of Willoughton were granted by the Empress Maud [1102-1167] to the Benedictine Abbey of St. Nicholas, Angers, [...] and the priory was probably built some time during the twelfth century." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK9316993327] notes: "Parish church. Late C13, C15, 1794, late C19. [...] C20 pews, pulpit, lectern and font."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 659584 5922649
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.4287, -0.598
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 25′ 43.32″ N, 0° 35′ 52.8″ W
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.