Halton Holegate / Haltun

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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - 4

Scene Description: the 14thC base of the present font in use

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 13 May 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/458667] [accessed 8 July 2019]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Andrew, Halton Holegate The church dates from about 1400. In the late 19th century the chancel was restored with a stained glass window, carved pulpit and lectern, a new altar and the organ by Wordsworth of Leeds. At the east end of the south isle is a recumbent stone effigy of a knight, about 1350, and an ancient burial slab about 1250."

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 May 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/451419] [accessed 8 July 2019]

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view of church interior - looking east

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 May 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/458757] [accessed 8 July 2019]

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view of church interior - south aisle - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: " Interior of St Andrew, Halton Holegate The south aisle, looking west towards the font."

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 May 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/458818] [accessed 8 July 2019]

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover in context

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view of object

Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior of St Andrew, Halton Holegate. Old font." But it is identified in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (New Haven: Yale UP, 2002) p. 360 as "a capital with two grotesque heads"

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 May 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/458728] [accessed 8 July 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 22224HAL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Halton Holegate, Spilsby PE23 5PD, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B1195 [aka Halton Rd], E of the A16, 2 km ESE of Spilsby
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Bolingbroke
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle
Century and Period: 14th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
There are two entries for Halton [Holegate] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF4165/halton-holegate/] [accessed 8 July 2019], one of which reports a church in it. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF4179465100] notes: "Parish church. C14, C15, porch rebuilt 1831, aisles rebuilt 1846, tower and east end rebuilt in 1866 by J. Fowler under supervision by G. E. Street, chancel restored 1894. [...] C14 font base with recut plain bowl."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.16346, 0.1199
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 9′ 48.46″ N, 0° 7′ 11.64″ E
UTM: 31U 307469 5894329

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; modern