Barrowby / Bergebi
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view of font and cover
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design element - patterns - tracery
Scene Description: several patterns, different on each side
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design element - patterns - tracery - window tracery
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design element - architectural - buttress - crocketed pinnacle - 8
Scene Description: at the angles of the basin
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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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design element - motifs - vine
Scene Description: beneath the upper rim
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human figure - head - 8
Scene Description: individualised
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design element - motifs - vine - grapevine? - bearing fruit
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 December 2007 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/633268] [accessed 7 July 2015]
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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 interior - nave - looking east
![the basin of the font is visible in the right [south] bank of benches of the nave, by the south arcade](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150804065_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the basin of the font is visible in the right [south] bank of benches of the nave, by the south arcade
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devil(s) and demons? or monkey?
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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design element - patterns - tracery - window tracery
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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 - patterns - crenellated
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01569BAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Late Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, towards the west end of the nave, by the S arcade
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Church Street, Barrowby, Lincolnshire, NG31
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
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
UTM: 30U 654989 5865715
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.9187, -0.6947
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 55′ 7.32″ N, 0° 41′ 40.92″ W
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, p. 207, 208
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 14
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989, p. 119
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 96