Bowden Mayne

INFORMATION

Font ID: 00799BOW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church?
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: [not located]
Additional Comments: unable to located the toponym
Font Notes:
Poole (1842) notes three heptagonal fonts (Elmeswell in Suffolk, Bowden Mayne in Licolnshire and Bowden Magna in Leicestershire), though he remarks that they are not "worthy of special notice". Paley (1844), too, lists a heptagonal font in "Bowden Mayne, Lincolnshire". [NB: we have not been able to located any reference to this location].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: heptagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: heptagonal

REFERENCES

  • Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, [unpaged]
  • Poole, George Ayliffe, The Appropriate Character of Church Architecture, Leeds; London: T.W. Green; Rivington, Burns, and Houlston and Stoneman, 1842, p. 70