Scartho / Scarhou

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: originally a rope moulding? [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 16 July 1998 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view

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 church exterior - tower

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 16 July 1998 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

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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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 16 July 1998 by BSI

view of font and cover in context

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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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 16 July 1998 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 00797SCA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Giles with St. Matthew

Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]

Church Location: Church Ln, Scartho, Lincolnshire, DN33 2EX, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands

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]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman?

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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 such 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.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.5386, -0.0890

Church 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

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

Fisher, Ernest Arthur, The Greater Anglo-Saxon Churches: an Architectural-Historical Study, London: Faber and Faber, 1962

Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844