Grantham No. 1

Results: 23 records

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B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation

Scene Description: south side of basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 July 1998 by BSI

B02: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings

Scene Description: Identified in Cox & Harvey (1907) and Pevsner... (1989) as the three Magi, but the artist responsible for the drawing [J. Basire?] has portrayed a child sitting on the leg of the centre crowned figure -- is this a Madonna and Child? the same with two of the Magi?

Image Source: digital image of a detail of an engraving from a drawing by J. Basire in Gough (1792)

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B03: Old Testament - story of Abraham - the sacrifice of Isaac (Genesis 22)

B04: New Testament - public life of Christ - Christ blessing the children?

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 July 1998 by BSI

B05: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Circumcision of Christ

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 July 1998 by BSI

B06: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 July 1998 by BSI

Apostle or saint - unidenitfied - 8

Scene Description: one on each panel of the underbowl

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 July 1998 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - Ogee arches - cusped and crocketed

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 July 1998 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - Ogee arches - cusped and crocketed - 8

Scene Description: each with a figure in it

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 July 1998 by BSI

view of base - detail

Scene Description: two of the apostles or saints that appear on the stem of the font

Image Source: digital image of a detail of an engraving from a drawing by J. Basire in Gough (1792)

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view of base - detail

Scene Description: two of the apostles or saints that appear on the stem of the font

Image Source: digital image of a detail of an engraving from a drawing by J. Basire in Gough (1792)

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view of basin

Image Source: digital image of a detail of an engraving from a drawing by J. Basire in Gough (1792)

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a detail of an engraving from a drawing by J. Basire in Gough (1792)

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a detail of an engraving from a drawing by J. Basire in Gough (1792)

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a detail of an engraving from a drawing by J. Basire in Gough (1792)

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a detail of an engraving from a drawing by J. Basire in Gough (1792)

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view of church exterior

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 July 1998 by BSI

view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital image of a ca. 1797 watercolour by J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) at the Yale Center for Vritish Art [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_Mallord_William_Turner_-_North_East_View_of_Grantham_Church,_Lincolnshire_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg] [accessed 3 November 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: with the font and tall cover visible at the far [west] end, left [south] side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 November 2008 by Richard Croft [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St.Wulfrum's_nave_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1045328.jpg] [accessed 3 November 2016]

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view of font

Scene Description: the hidden sides of the font are shown in the added illustrations

Image Source: digital image of an engraving from a drawing by J. Basire in Gough (1792)

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a detail of an engraving from a drawing by J. Basire in Gough (1792)

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 July 1998 by BSI

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: by the west entranceway

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2012 by Martinevans123 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Wulfram%27s,_Grantham_-_font.jpg] [accessed 3 November 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01570GRA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Wulfram

Church Patron Saints: St. Wulfram [aka Vulfran, Wulfran]

Church Location: Castle Gate / Church Street, Grantham, Lincolnshire NG31 6RS

Country Name: England

Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off the A52, 38 km SW of Lincoln

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln

Historical Region: Hundred of Winnibriggs

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, centre of the nave

Date: ca. 1496?

Century and Period: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular

Church Notes: church reported in 1086; destroyed by lighning 1222; re-built 1250; expanded 1280, 15th, 16thC; restored by G.G. Scott 1866-1867;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Grantham in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK9135/grantham/] [accessed 10 November 2018]; it reports a church and "8.0 church lands" in it. Gough (1792) notes the font at Grantham as being ornamented with the same designs [i.e., the Seven Sacraments] as those in Woodbridge, Melton , Bad[d]ingham and Laxford [i.e., Laxfield], in Suffolk, and includes an engraving of the font and its details by J. Basire [NB: the Grantham font is not ornamented with the Seven Sacraments -- cf. infra for the ornamentation on this font]. According to Cox (1907) the font is a noteworthy example of the Decorated period, with a series of sculptures representing the Annunciation, Nativity, Circumcision, Baptism, Blessing of Children, Transfiguration, Sacrifice of Isaac and the Three Kings; the stem and base are 15th century; the steps and tall cover are modern. Betjeman (1958) describes it as "rich and unusual, with carved panels of scriptural subjects." Described in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Perp[endicular], octagonal. Statuettes against the stem. Against the bowl religious scenes, e.g. Annunciation, Nativity, Baptism of Christ, three seated Kings. -- The tall Gothic font cover is by Walter Tapper, 1899." On-site notes: the octagonal mounted font is badly worn; the basin well has no lining; it has a central drain; the figures of the stem are probably apostles or saints and each may carry some distinguishing symbol, now too eroded for identification [NB: local history claims the Roundheads, i.e., Cromwell's Parliament supporters, used the pews to fuel their fires, and threw the font out of the church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.914639, -0.641303

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 54′ 52.7″ N, 0° 38′ 28.69″ W

UTM: 30U 658593 5865380

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: No lining

Rim Thickness: 10-12 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 30 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 50-54 cm

Height of Basin Side: 32 cm

Basin Total Height: 43 cm

Height of Base: 65 cm

Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 32 x 32 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 110 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1899

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: Tall wooden font-cover gilded and with inscription, dated 1899

REFERENCES

Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958

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

Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; r["References"]

Mehling, Franz N., Great Britain and Ireland: a Phaidon Cultural Guide, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989