Thorganby nr. Grimsby / Torgrebi / Torgrembi / Turgrebi

INFORMATION

Font ID: 22411THO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Swallow Rd, Thorganby, Grimsby DN37 0SU, UK
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B1203, 14 km NE of Market Rasen, about the same distance SE of Grimsby, in the Licolnshire Wolds
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Walscroft
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
There is an entry for this Thorganby [variant spellings] recording eight owners in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF2097/thorganby/] [accessed 23 October 2019] one of which, in the tenancy of the Bishop of Durham in 1086 reports a church in it. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF2081397610] [accessed 23 October 2019] notes: "Parish Church. C13, mostly rebuilt c1900. [...] C13 octagonal stone font on rectangular plinth with nicked corners."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 687138 5927333
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.4617, -0.181
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 27′ 42.12″ N, 0° 10′ 51.6″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal