Threckingham / Threekingham / Tricengham / Trichigeham / Trichingham / Trichingeham / Trichingheham
Image copyright © Bob Harvey, 2014
CC-BY-SA-2.5
Results: 8 records
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches
Scene Description: all around the basin sides -- notice the metal staple on the left side, below the rim
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2013
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 26 May 2013 by J.Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3481717] [accessed 9 January 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5
inscription - detail
Scene Description: around the lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Simpson (1828: 35)
Copyright Instructions: PD
inscription - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2013
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 26 May 2013 by J.Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3481717] [accessed 9 January 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jules & Jenny, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph 4 February 2016 by Jules & Jenny [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Threekingham,_St_Peter's_church_(31108208300).jpg] [accessed 9 January 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jules & Jenny, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph 4 February 2016 by Jules & Jenny [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Threekingham,_St_Peter's_church_(30670956263).jpg] [accessed 9 January 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a Robert Roberts engraving of a drawing by F. Simpson Jr., in Simpson (1828: 35)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 26 May 2013 by J.Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3481717] [accessed 9 January 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Peter ad Vincula, Font and cover. The cover looks modern, but the guide book dates it to the 18th century. The font itself dates from 1200, and stands now on a 15th century base inscribed with the opening lines of the Ave Maria. [...] The font lies between the South and North door."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bob Harvey, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 24 September 2014 by Bob Harvey [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4180049] [accessed 9 January 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5
INFORMATION
FontID: 01573THR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter ad vincula
Church Location: 12 Laundon Rd, Threekingham, Sleaford NG34 0AX, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 7399 548373
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the A52, 10 km S of Sleaford, about 20 km E of Grantham on the A52, 40-45 km N of Peterborough up the A15
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Aveland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [Simpson gave the location ca. 1828 as "on the north side of the nave towards the west end opposite the south door"]
Century and Period: 13th century (mid?) [basin] - 14th century [base] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church Notes: churches already reported in the Domesday survey;
There are nine entries for Threekingham [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF0836/threekingham/] [accessed 9 January 2022], three of which report parts of church and church lands in them. A font here is described and illustrated in Simpson (1828): "This Font is made of red stone, in three pieces; the bowl one, the portion between that and the base the second and the base the third; the two lower stones are much more fresh and sharp than the bowl; this fact, joined to the kind of letter used on the base, shews that the two lower stones are not so old as the upper one." Simpson (ibid.) writes about the inscription around the lower base: "All our endeavours either to make it agree with Dr. Stukeley's interpretation, which is Ave Maria gratia p. d. t., or to put any of our own upon it, have been fruitless; those letters which are but faintly indicated, are very much worn and the space between the p. and d. is so smooth, that we cannot say with certainty that any thing has ever existed there. The relief of the letters is very bold, and we should say that they are of the fifteenth century." Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports: "the font is circular, with early English panelling". Described in Cox-Harvey (1907) as an Early English font with the inscription "'Ave Maria graciae plena dominus tecum' (In an abbreviated form)." In Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Tub-shaped, E[arly] E[nglish]. Pointed-trefoiled blank arches on shafts. On the foot the inscription Ave Maria P.D.T." Stockner (1997) notes that "a simple arcaded bowl, which cannot be much later than about 1250, has been preserved and reset on a shaft and base dated by a 'black-letter' inscription -- a letter-form type almost unknown before the mid 14th century." The entry for this church in Historic England
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.9117,
-0.381
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 54' 42.1" N,
0° 22' 51.6" W
UTM: 30U 676104 5865660
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, red stone
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead lined
Rim Thickness: 11.5-12 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 67.5 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 81.25 cm
Basin Depth: 31.25 cm
Basin Total Height: 36.25 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 81.25 cm
Notes on Measurements: Simpson (1828: 36)
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Notes: Simpson quotes Dr. Stukeley's Itin. I, p. 10 as the source for the Dr.'s transcription: "Ave Maria gratia p. d. t." [i.e., Ave Maria gratia plena Dominus tecum] -- [cf. Images area for Simpson's drawing of it] -- Cox & Harvey have no problem accepting the Marian version.
Inscription Location: all around the lower base
Inscription Text: "AVE MARIA GRATIA [...] P.D.T."
Inscription Source: Simpson (1828: 35) ; Cox & Harvey (1907: 184)
LID INFORMATION
Date: 18th century?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal platform with four scroll ribs around central pivot; new paint makes it look modern
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
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
Parker, John Henry, A Glossary of Terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian and Gothic Architecture, Oxford: J. H. Parker, 1850
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989
Simpson, Francis, A series of ancient baptismal fonts: chronologically arranged, drwan by F. Simpson, Jun., engraved by R. Roberts, London: Septimus Prowett, 1828
Stocker, D.A., "Fons et origo: The Symbolic Death and Resurrection of English Font Stones", I (1997b), Church Archaeology, 1997, pp. 17-25; r["References"]
