West Deeping / West Depinge

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B01: coat of arms - Wake

Scene Description: first from the left; identified in Simpson (1828) as Baldwin Wake; the Wakes were the owners of West Deeping

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Simpson (1828: 39)

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B02: coat of arms - unidentified

Scene Description: Second from the left

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Simpson (1828: 39)

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B03: coat of arms - Clare

Scene Description: third from the left; the arms of Clare quartered by the Wakes of West Deeping

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Simpson (1828: 39)

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B04: coat of arms - unidentified?

Scene Description: fourth from the left [NB: the text identifies these as the arms of the Beauchamp -with a suggested correction- but there may be an error there and the reference is to the fifth shield, not the fourth, in which case these arms would remain unidentified]

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Simpson (1828: 39)

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B05: coat of arms - Beauchamp? [later arms]

Scene Description: fifth from the left [NB: there may be an error in Simpson's text relating to the identification of this shield; these are probably the arms of the Beauchamp on the fifth shield, not on the fourth as the text states; if this were so, "there ought to be three crosslets below as well as above the fess"]

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Simpson (1828: 39)

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B06: coat of arms - unidentified

Scene Description: sixth from the left

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Simpson (1828: 39)

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B07: coat of arms - Beauchamp (ancient arms]

Scene Description: seventh from the left [Simpson (1828) states that they "very closely resemble the arms more anciently borne by the Beauchamps

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Simpson (1828: 39)

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B08: coat of arms - unidentified

Scene Description: eighth from the left

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Simpson (1828: 39)

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - Ogee arches - 8

Scene Description: deeply carved, all around the pedestal base

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Simpson (1828: 39)

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view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2012 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3637350] [accessed 17 April 2019]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 November 2006 by Rex Needle [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4437650] [accessed 17 April 2019]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "The Early English nave has three-bay arcades with round piers, and the chancel dates from the early 14th century. It was highly decorated with tiling in the 19th century restoration. The ceiling is painted with symbols of the passion. There is a tall stone reredos by Butterfield in front of the east window. [...] The stained-glass in the chancel is by Gibbs, from around 1878."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2015 by Jules & Jenny [www.flickr.com/photos/78914786@N06/33549233171] [accessed 17 April 2019]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Corblet (1881: 152)

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Simpson (1828: 39)

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Gailhabaud (1850, t.III: unpaged)

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2016 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5020701] [accessed 17 April 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01568DEE

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: Church Ln, West Deeping, Peterborough PE6 9HU, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A1175, 5 km W of Market Deeping, 7 km E of Stamford, 12 km NW of Peterborough

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln

Historical Region: Hundred of Ness

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, S side

Century and Period: 13th century [base only] / 15th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for West Deeping [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF1008/west-deeping/] [accessed 17 April 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Simpson (1828) states his debt in the identification of the coats-of-arms to "Mr. Willement, the author of 'Regal Heraldry' and Mr. Baker the historian of Northamptonshire". According to him/them, the first shield [cf. Images area] bears the arms of Wake [Baldwin Wake owned West Deeping, explains Simpson; he lived in the reign of Henry III, i.e., 1377-1399, and had married Ela, daughter of William de Beauchamp, "and the Wakes subsequently inherited considerable property and quartered the arms of the Beauchamp; the arms of Clare were also quartered by them"]. In the third shield are the arms of Clare; in the fourth [the fifth?] those of the Beauchamp, "except that there ought to be three crosslets below as well as above the fess". The arms on the seventh shield "resemble the arms more anciently borne by the Beauchamps." Simpson adds that the arms on the other shields were not identified but that "the style of the Font places its date about the reign of Edward the First" [i.e., 1272-1307] and that it "most probably was given to the church by the Wake family, not long after their intermarriage with the Beauchamps." His illustration shows the octagonal basin mounted on an octagonal pedestal ornamented with a deeply-carved arcade of Ogee arches resting on columns with capitals and bases; the lower base, also octagonal, is plain and splayed out. The upper rim of the basin still shows the two eyelets of the font cover. Noted in Paley (1844). Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 remarks: "the font is a fine specimen of the early English." Poole (1842) dates it to the Early English period. Described and illustrated in Gailhabaud (1850) who does not mention the composite nature of this font; he reports that the font is believed to be from the reign of Edward I (1272-1307), the gift of the Wake family, whose coat-od-arms it bears together with a number of unidentified others. Ruprich-Robert (1855) mentions noteworthy fonts at "Vest, Deeping", among others, likely referring to the font at 'West Deeping'. Cox & Harvey (1907) describe this font as "a fine Early English shaft, and a later octagon bowl with heraldic shields". Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Octagonal, C13(?), With panels with shields." The present wooden cover, octagonal and plain, is modern

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.664143, -0.36162

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 39′ 50.92″ N, 0° 21′ 41.83″ W

UTM: 30U 678417 5838177

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: two?

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Rim Thickness: 7.5 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 55 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 70 cm* / 80.8 cm**

Basin Depth: 27.5 cm*

Basin Total Height: 45 cm*

Height of Base: 60 cm [calculated]

Font Height (less Plinth): 105 cm* / 106.4 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * Simpson (1828: 40) / ** Gailhabaud (1850, t.III: unpaged)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: the present cover is modern; two old metal staples in the upper rim of the basin are still in place

REFERENCES

Corblet, Jules, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de baptême, Paris: V. Palme, 1881-1882

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

Gailhabaud, Jules, Monuments anciens et modernes: collection formant une histoire de l’architecture des differents peuples à toutes les epoques., Paris: Didot frères, 1850

Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831

Moule, Thomas, The English counties delineated; or, A topographical description of England [...], London: George Virtue, 1837 [vol. 2]

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989

Ruprich-Robert, V., "Bénitiers et fonts baptismaux du Moyen-âge et de la Renaissance", II (1855), Revue générale de l'architecture et des travaux publics, pp. 289-290, Pl. XXVI; r["References"]

Simpson, Francis, A series of ancient baptismal fonts: chronologically arranged, drwan by F. Simpson, Jun., engraved by R. Roberts, London: Septimus Prowett, 1828