Quadring

Results: 2 records

B01: angel - holding shield

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

view of font in context

Scene Description: the font after the church was hit by lightning in July 1939

Image Source: 1939 B&W photograph reproduced in [http://www.fenlander.info/quadring-st-margs.htm] [accessed 9 August 2010]

Copyright Instructions: Permission to reproduce granted by Tom Hall, who had received the photograph from a local ex-school teacher

INFORMATION

FontID: 01229QUA

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret

Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]

Church Location: Spalding PE11 4SQ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 7803 875638

Country Name: England

Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located on th A152, 11 km NW of Spalding

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tom Hall for facilitating the 1939 photograph of the damaged font

Font Notes: Click to view

Noted in Allen (1833): "In this church there is a very curious ancient font with eight faces on which some fanciful devices are cut there is also a latin inscription but the persons name cannot be made out 'Pray for the soul of --------------- who caused this font to be erected'". Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font which a Latin inscription [cf. Inscription area] around the base. Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with angels holding shields." Sandra & Tom Hall's website entry for St. Margaret's includes a 1939 photograph that shows the font when it was damaged by lightning: "At the entrance to the bell tower stands the font, it has an ancient Latin inscription at the base mentioning the Percy family - "Pray for the soul of Robert Percy who caused this font to be made". The font has signs of new stonework, it was damaged in 1939 when lightning struck the church tower and stonework fell on the font."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.89, -0.181

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 53′ 24″ N, 0° 10′ 51.6″ W

UTM: 30U 689644 5863756

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Notes: probably the name of the donor

Inscription Location: Round the base

Inscription Text: "Orate pro a[n]i[m]a Roberti Perci qui istum fontem fieri fecit"

Inscription Source: Cox & Harvey (1907: 183)

REFERENCES

Allen, Thomas, The History of the County of Lincoln, from the earliest period to the present time [...], London & Lincoln: John Saunders, Junior, 1833-

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989