Buslingthorpe / Boselyngthorpe / Esetorp
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 May 2018 by Ian S [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5791961] [accessed 13 July 2019]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior of St Michael, Buslingthorpe. The font has a late mediaeval bowl, re-cut and mounted on a 19th-century base."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 May 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/428648] [accessed 13 July 2019]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Michael's is a medieval church, Grade II listed with a surviving medieval west tower and 13th century chancel arch, while the nave and chancel were rebuilt in 1835. The building today overlies the buried remains of an earlier church revealed during work to its foundations."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2011 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2622268] [accessed 14 July 2019]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
![showing the font at the far [west] end, right [north] side](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1190713018_compressed.png)
Scene Description: showing the font at the far [west] end, right [north] side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ian S, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 May 2018 by Ian S [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5791975] [accessed 13 July 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ian S, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 May 2018 by Ian S [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5791965] [accessed 13 July 2019]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 22238BUS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century [basin only] [altered], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael [redundant since 1984]
Font Location in Church: Inside the now redundant church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Address: Unnamed Road, Buslingthorpe Rd, Buslingthorpe, Lincoln LN3 5AT, UK
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) Buslingthorpe Rd, 2 km E of Faldingworth and the A46 [aka Lincoln Rd], 5-6 km SW of Market Rasen
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Lawress
Additional Comments: altered font (13th-14thC basin re-cut and mounted on a 19thC pedestal base)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Buslingthorpe [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF0885/buslingthorpe/] [accessed 13 July 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF0794585160] notes: "Parish church, now closed. C13, C14, 1835 restoration and rebuilding [...] All fittings are C19 except for the font which has reused octagonal bowl." The basin has been re-cut and mounted on a 19th-century pedestal base. The wooden font cover is also modern.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 674397 5914663
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.3523, -0.3797
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 21′ 8.28″ N, 0° 22′ 46.92″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]