Bowden Mayne

INFORMATION

FontID: 00799BOW

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church/Chapel: Parish Church?

Country Name: England

Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: [not located]

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Font Notes: Click to view

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

Poole, George Ayliffe, The Appropriate Character of Church Architecture, Leeds; London: T.W. Green; Rivington, Burns, and Houlston and Stoneman, 1842