Stixwould No. 1 / Stigesuuald / Stigeswalde / Stigeswalt / Stixwold

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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - symbol - eagle

Scene Description: seen on the left panel here, the name carved atop the panel

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 29 June 2013 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3537539] [accesssed 25 April 2019]

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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Luke - symbol - winged bull

Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion

Scene Description: seen on the right panel here, the name carved atop the panel

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 29 June 2013 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3537539] [accesssed 25 April 2019]

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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - angel

Scene Description: seen on the centre panel here, the name carved atop the panel

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 29 June 2013 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3537539] [accesssed 25 April 2019]

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nature - labours of the months - January, February, March, April

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 June 2013 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3537612] [accesssed 25 April 2019]

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view of church exterior - northwest end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 September 2018 by David Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5996020] [accessed 25 April 2019]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Peter's church, Stixwould [...] The church was rebuilt in 1831 by Christopher Turner, incorporating some earlier fabric".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 June 2013 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3537534] [accesssed 25 April 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01571STI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter [aka St Helen's?]

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Main St, Stixwould and Woodhall, LN10 5HP, UK -- Tel.: 07842 202525

Country Name: England

Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located between the B1191 and the B1290, 3 km NE of Woodhall Spa, 11 km WSW of Horncastle, 22 km ESE of Lincoln

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln

Historical Region: Hundred of Gartree

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 14th - 16th century, Perpendicular

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for Stixwould [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF1765/stixwould/] [accessed 25 April 2019] none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Tyack (1899) notes a font with the emblems of the four Evangelists here. Cox & Harvey (1907) report an octagonal baptismal font of the Perpendicular period; the eight panels of the basin sides bear the symbols of the four Evangelists, and the first four months of the year on the sides, the names of the evangelists carved atop each one, the names of the months in black letter; the corners of the basin are decorated with large protruding pillars with foliated tops but the bases are grotesque (?) animal heads; there is band of rosettes just below the upper rim; the upper rim side above Matthew, on the west side of the basin, is damaged, with large chunk of stone missing, and metal staples can still be seen in the gap. In Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Octagonal, late C14, with the signs of the evangelists and four representations of the labours of the months: January (warming a hand and a foot by an unrepresented fire), February, March, and April (a figure with a cornucopia)." The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: TF1768365882] notes: "Parish church. 1831 rebuilding by Christopher Turner, incorporating some earlier fabric [...] handsome C16 octagonal font with panels containing deeply carved beasts and figures. Above the panels is an inscription in Lombardic letters."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.1768, -0.241

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 10′ 36.48″ N, 0° 14′ 27.6″ W

UTM: 30U 684380 5895493

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Notes: The names of the four Evangelists and of the first for months of the year (?)

Inscription Location: Alternate above the symbols and the four months of the year

Inscription Text: "[Iohannes] / Mattheus / Marcus / [Lu??]" / [first four months of the year]

Inscription Source: Cox & Harvey (1907: 184, 207)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal, flat and plain; modern

REFERENCES

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989

Tyack, George Smith, Lore and legend of the English Church, London: W. Andrews, 1899