East Firsby / Frisebi / West Firsby

INFORMATION

Font ID: 22167FIR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James [disappeared]
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James
Church Address: [address and coordinates given are for the approximate site of the disappeared village and hamlet: Unnamed Road, Market Rasen LN8 2DB, UK]
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (from the disappeared Domesday-time church in it)
Town/City Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firsby
Font Notes:
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-, vol, 2: 35