Greetham nr. Horncastle / Granham

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: damaged in several places

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2006 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/439567] [accessed 25 May 2019]

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2006 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/439567] [accessed 25 May 2019]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2006 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/439567] [accessed 25 May 2019]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "All Saints Church, Greetham [...] 12th Century onwards, and restored 1903. South aisle and tower have been demolished."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 October 2011 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2639890] [accessed 25 May 2019]

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view of church interior - looking east

view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior of All Saints, Greetham. Looking from the chancel, through the rood screen to the nave."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2006 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/439996] [accessed 25 May 2019]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: beneath the bellcote

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2006 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/439567] [accessed 25 May 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 22173GRE

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Church Ln, Greetham, Horncastle LN9 6NT , UK

Country Name: England

Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off the A1580B1195 crossroads, 4-5 km E of Horncastle

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln

Historical Region: Hundred of Hill

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, beneath the bellcote

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Medieval

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for this Greetham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF3070/greetham/] [accessed 25 May 2019]; it reports a priest and a church in it. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF3085170810] notes: "Parish church. C12, early C13, C14, C15, in the main 1903 when the church was restored and the chancel, vestry and porch rebuilt"; no font mentioned. Like the church itself the font is rather unremarkable, an octagonal basin, plain except for some graded mouldings beneath the rim, raised on an octagonal pedestal base with a single, much damaged thin moulding, and an octagonal-to-square lower base, the octagonal part a thick roll moulding; late medieval? Pyramidal wooden cover, octagonal and carved, with fleuron finial; pulley system in place to operate it. [NB: we have no information on the font of the Domesday-time church here]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.21837, -0.0414

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 13′ 6.13″ N, 0° 2′ 29.04″ W

UTM: 30U 697525 5900649

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal