Scartho / Scarhou
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view of font and cover
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2008 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/858703] [accessed 17 February 2015]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: originally a rope moulding? [cf. FontNotes]
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view of church exterior - tower
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2008 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/857201] [accessed 17 February 2015]
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view of font and cover in context
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2008 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/858699] [accessed 17 February 2015]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00797SCA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 1998-07-16
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Giles with St. Matthew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17524728
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Church Address: Church Ln, Scartho, Lincolnshire, DN33 2EX, United Kingdom
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A16 just outside (S) Grimsby, its suburb now, at the mouth of the Humber
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Bradley [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: abandoned font / restored font: [cf. Paley's notes of ca. 1844] -- disappeared fonts? (the ones from the three churches in Domesday-time here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Scartho [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TA2606/scartho/] [accessed 17 February 2015], which mentions three priests and three churches in it. Paley (1844) notes a baptismal font "shaped like a hand-bason [...] placed on an irregular heptagonal plinth. Unhappily it is filled up with bricks and rubbish, and a small wooden pillar used for Baptism." Bond (1908) warns that dating of this and other crudely carved fonts with uncouth ornamentation has put them at a too early date. English Heritage [Listing NGR: TA2673806363] (1951) reports: "Norman tub font with cable-moulded rim on a 1921 shafted base."
On-site notes: crude bucket-shaped probably Norman basin raised on a columnar cluster base of a modern date; the eroded moulding at the upper rim may have been originally a rope moulding; the circular plinth has an inscription that dates it to 1920; the basin well is lined with lead and has a central drain, and it is quite small for a Norman font. The plain wooden lid is also modern.
On-site notes: crude bucket-shaped probably Norman basin raised on a columnar cluster base of a modern date; the eroded moulding at the upper rim may have been originally a rope moulding; the circular plinth has an inscription that dates it to 1920; the basin well is lined with lead and has a central drain, and it is quite small for a Norman font. The plain wooden lid is also modern.
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.5386, -0.0890
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 32′ 18.67″ N, 0° 05′ 22.07″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin & base
Rim Thickness: 14-15 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 48 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 76-79 cm*
Basin Total Height: 40 cm*
Height of Base: 48 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 88-90 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 139
- Fisher, Ernest Arthur, The Greater Anglo-Saxon Churches: an Architectural-Historical Study, London: Faber and Faber, 1962, pl. 163
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 19