Cabourne / Cabourn / Caburne [Domesday] (Licolnshire)

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view of font and cover

Source caption: "Font, St Nicholas' church, Cabourne. This drum font has rope mouldings and band of intersecting arches."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Font, St Nicholas' church, Cabourne. This drum font has rope mouldings and band of intersecting arches."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 February 2015 by J.Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4350354] [accessed 25 September 2016]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding - 2

the direction of the motif is opposed on the mouldings, thus creating a 'spicatum' or braid effect
Scene Description: the direction of the motif is opposed on the mouldings, thus creating a 'spicatum' or braid effect
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 July 1998 by BSI
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches

all around
Scene Description: all around
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 July 1998 by BSI
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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Font image
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 July 1998 by BSI
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view of church exterior - southeast view

Source caption: "St Nicholas' church, Cabourne. Grade II* listed. The lower tower dates from the 11th century, as does the drum font, found in 1872 under the floor. There is a surviving 15th century window, but most of the church was rebuilt in 1872 by Sir A.W. Blomfield. There are two 12th C grave markers against the east wall. The church is built of Ironstone."
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Nicholas' church, Cabourne. Grade II* listed. The lower tower dates from the 11th century, as does the drum font, found in 1872 under the floor. There is a surviving 15th century window, but most of the church was rebuilt in 1872 by Sir A.W. Blomfield. There are two 12th C grave markers against the east wall. The church is built of Ironstone."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 February 2015 by J.Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4350349] [accessed 25 September 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 February 2015 by J.Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4350351] [accessed 25 September 2016]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 00793CAB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 1998-07-15
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Notes: church restored by Blomfield in 1872
Church Address: Grimsby Rd, Cabourne, Lincolnshire LN7 6HU, United Kingtom
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A46, 3 km ENE of Caistor, 42 kms ENE of Lincoln
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Haverstoe [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: buried font (found under the floor in 1872 -- restored / recycled font?: the basins of two fonts may now make up this one
Font Notes:
There are seven entries for this Cabourne [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TA1401/cabourne/] [accessed 27 June 2015], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. A font here is noted in Paley (1844) simply as an early font. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 describes it as "a large antique font." Bond (1908) argues that the Cabourne font has been dated too early due to the crudeness of the execution and uncouth ornamentation. Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): " Font. Norman, of drum shape. A rope moulding, a band of intersected arches, a double rope moulding. The font was found under the floor during the 1872 restoration." On-site notes: two fonts may have been combined into this one: both appear to have been 12th century and made of the same type of stone; the bottom one used for the base has been cut smooth all the way around; there is evidence that a cable motif once encircled the lower bowl; the upper bowl has a double cable motif around the rim and one on the lower edge; an overlapping arch (double) ornaments the lower half of the bowl; the inside of the upper bowl is lined with lead and there is a central drainage hole. The colour of the stone is reddish-orangey-yellow. The font has been much repaired.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 680165 5931491
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.50146, -0.283526
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 30′ 5.26″ N, 0° 17′ 0.7″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin & base
Rim Thickness: 8-12 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 53 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 74-77 cm*
Basin Depth: 27 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 64 cm*
Basin Total Height: 64 cm*
Height of Base: 66 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 130 cm*
Square Base Dimensions: 68 x 60 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

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

REFERENCES

  • Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958, p. 238
  • Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 139
  • Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=50851] [accessed 22 January 2007]
  • Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 20
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989, p. 203
  • Stocker, D.A., "Fons et origo: The Symbolic Death and Resurrection of English Font Stones", I (1997b), Church Archaeology, 1997, pp. 17-25; p. 17ff
  • Taylor, H.M., Anglo-Saxon Architecture, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965-1978, vol. III: p. 127