Barrowby / Bergebi

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design element - architectural - buttress - crocketed pinnacle - 8
Scene Description: at the angles of the basin
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design element - architectural - canopy - pinnacled - crocketed pinnacle - 8
Scene Description: similar to the ones on the basin
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design element - motifs - vine
Scene Description: beneath the upper rim
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design element - motifs - vine - grapevine? - bearing fruit
design element - patterns - crenellated
design element - patterns - tracery
Scene Description: several patterns, different on each side
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design element - patterns - tracery - window tracery
design element - patterns - tracery - window tracery
devil(s) and demons? or monkey?
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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human figure - head - 16
Scene Description: serving as imposts to the pointed arch-heads on the basin sides; the heads are individualised
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human figure - head - 8
Scene Description: individualised
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view of church exterior - north view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Although the church is medieval it is entered through a 15th C porch, with the door to the church itself being of 13th C, built in the Early English style. Just inside the entrance to the church is the font which dates from the 14th C which is octagonal and carved to show different styles of window tracery – Geometric, Decorated and Perpendicular. The base has a hollow stem and through the ornamental carving can be seen a three-headed monster in chains, perhaps suggestive of the restraint put upon evil through the power of baptism."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 March 2014 by J.Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3899999] [accessed 7 July 2015]
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view of church exterior - south view
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the basin of the font is visible in the right [south] bank of benches of the nave, by the south arcade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 March 2014 by J.Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3905827] [accessed 7 July 2015]
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view of font and cover
INFORMATION
FontID: 01569BAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Church Street, Barrowby, Lincolnshire, NG31
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A52, 3 km W of Grantham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Winnibriggs [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Munslow and the Liberty and Borough of Wenlock
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, towards the west end of the nave, by the S arcade
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Late Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Barrowby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK8736/barrowby/] [accessed 7 July 2015]; it mentions a priest and a curch in it. A font here is noted in Paley (1844) as a baptismal font the stem of which "is pierced, and contains within three monkeys, as in a cage." Cox & Harvey (1907) describe it as a 14th-century font of exceptional design and elaborate tracery ornament with a triple monster curiously enclosed in its hollow stem. Noted in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one of group of 14th-century fonts in the Decorated style ornamented with varied patterns of blind tracery (in this group are: Offley in Herts.; Weobley in Hereford; Goadby Marwood and Noseley in Leics.; Barrowby, Carlton Scroope and Haydor in Lincs.; Northampton St. Peter's; Kiddington, Bloxham and Woodstock in Oxon.;Brailes in Warwick, and Patrington in Yorkshire). Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Octagonal. Perp[endicular]. The stem has the surprising and delightfl feature of being transparent and revealing through its little two-light windows a devil inside." The Benefice web site [www.allsaintslincs.freeuk.com/History.htm] has yet a different description of the stem inhabitant: "Through the ornamental perforations a three-headed monster can be seen in chains".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.9187, -0.6947
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 55′ 7.32″ N, 0° 41′ 40.92″ W
UTM: 30U 654989 5865715
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928