South Kelsey / Colesi / Keleseie Parva

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2014 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4166795] [accessed 15 May 2019]

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view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2016 by Jules & Jenny [www.flickr.com/photos/78914786@N06/27215589675] [accessed 15 May 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 22161KEL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Unnamed Rd, South Kelsey, Market Rasen LN7 6PW, UK -- Tel.: +44 1673 844770

Country Name: England

Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off the B1205, 7 km W of Caistor, 8 km E of the A15

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln

Historical Region: Hundred of Walshcroft

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Notes: South Kelsey was originally two eccelsiastical parishes: St Mary and St Nicholas; St Nicholas became disused and was demolished ca. 1800 -- there was a 12thC(?) priory here at Wenghale [aka Winghale] but no information of a church in it is extant

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There are two entries for [South] Kelsey [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF0498/south-kelsey/] [accessed 15 May 2019] neither of which mentions a church in it, although one of them was in the lordship of "Ernwin (the priest)" in 1066. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF0416898218] notes: "Parish Church; C13, C14, 1798, 1853 resoration by W. Butterfield; 1889 restoration by Hodgson Fowler. [...] The font is a plain round bowl on an octagonal pillar and plinth." The entry for this church in LINCS to the past [www.lincstothepast.com/St-Mary-s-Church--South-Kelsey/234697.record?pt=S] [accessed 15 May 2019] notes: "St Mary's Church retains the medieval tower dating from c.1300-30. It was rebuilt in 1795, in part from materials of the ruined church of St Nicholas."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.4707, -0.432

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 28′ 14.52″ N, 0° 25′ 55.2″ W

UTM: 30U 670443 5927704

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-05-15 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.