Buslingthorpe / Boselyngthorpe / Esetorp

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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 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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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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]

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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 font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ian S, 2018

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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INFORMATION

FontID: 22238BUS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael [redundant since 1984]
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: Unnamed Road, Buslingthorpe Rd, Buslingthorpe, Lincoln LN3 5AT, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
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
Font Location in Church: Inside the now redundant church
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century [basin only] [altered], Medieval [composite]
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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.3523, -0.3797
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 21′ 8.28″ N, 0° 22′ 46.92″ W
UTM: 30U 674397 5914663

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]