East Firsby / Frisebi / West Firsby

INFORMATION

FontID: 22167FIR

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James [disappeared]

Church Patron Saints: St. James

Church Location: [address and coordinates given are for the approximate site of the disappeared village and hamlet: Unnamed Road, Market Rasen LN8 2DB, UK]

Country Name: England

Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Location of the site of the disappeared village and hamlet, about 1 km from Saxby, 8-9 km WSW of Market Rasen, 16 km N of Lincoln

Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Lincoln]

Historical Region: Hundred of Aslacoe

Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman

Font Notes: Click to view

There is an entry for [East and 'West'] Firsby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/east-and-west-firsby/] [accessed 20 May 2019]; it reports a church in it. East Firsby and its hamlet West Firsby were located about 13 km N of Lincoln; they were reported depopulated, "entirely gone, its site only remaining" in Allen's History of the County of Lincoln (1834).

REFERENCES

Allen, Thomas, The History of the County of Lincoln, from the earliest period to the present time [...], London & Lincoln: John Saunders, Junior, 1833-