Aswarby / Asuuardebi
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption; "The tub font dates from the 12th century and the carved wooden cover from the 20th century."
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view of font and cover
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image of an engraving by Robert Roberts, of a drawing by F. Simpson Jr., in Simpson (1828: 19)
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design element - architectural - column - 4
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: On the capitals of the corner columns
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view of church exterior - south portal
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "The Church of St Denys, Aswarby. The church has its origins in the 12th century. The chancel was built in 1848 by H E Kendall and restoration by Edward Blore took place in 1850. It is built of limestone ashlar and coursed squared limestone rubble."
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2013
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01576ASW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Cognate Fonts: Aunsby, also in Lincs.
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Denis / Denys
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Denys [aka Denis, Dennis, Dionis, Dyonisius]
Church Address: Aswarby, Sleaford NG34 8SB, UK
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A15, 6 km S of Sleaford, 6 km NW of Folkingham, 20 km E of Grantham
Historical Region: Hundred of Aswardahurn
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Aswarby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF0639/aswarby/] [accessed 25 September 2018], one of which reports "1.7 church" in it. Described and illustrated in Simpson (1828) as a late-Norman baptismal font, "a specimen of what may be called transition work, the capitals Norman, so far as relates to the Abacus, but otherwise inclined to the Early English style, and the bases more decidedly so." Simpson (ibid.) notes that part of the font appears to hang over the plinth on one side, but that it is not known why or when it happen to be so placed. Simpson (ibid.) gives the font at nearby Aunsby as similar and of the same period. Moule (1837) dates to the reign of Henry III [i.e., 1216-1272]. In Sutton (1904) as "almost Early English". Cox-Harvey (1907) describe it as a circular font with constructional shafts. Bond (1908) describes it simply as a circular mounted font. Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Transitional. Circular with four corner shafts. They have ribbed leaf capitals and these, in a very unusual way, send out horns or spurs to clasp the round bowl." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF0672039906] notes: "Parish church, C12, C14, C15, Chancel 1849 by H.E. Kendall, restored 1850 by Edward Blore [...] Late C12 round tub font with 4 engaged round shafts having stylised acanthus capitals, C20 carved wooden lid."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 673587 5868979
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.94233, -0.41661
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 56′ 32.39″ N, 0° 24′ 59.8″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: cylindrical, unmounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round [with pillars at the angles which make it aquare]
Rim Thickness: 11.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 64.5 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 87 cm [*104.5 diag.]
Basin Depth: 40 cm
Basin Total Height: 63.75 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 63.75 cm
Notes on Measurements: Simpson (1828: 19) *[this measurement correspondes to the diagonal from tip to tip, i.e., "including the Abacus"]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern / 20thC?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round platform with four vertical scroll ribs around a pivot; metal or gilded dove finial; modern
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 45
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 207
- Moule, Thomas, The English counties delineated; or, A topographical description of England [...], London: George Virtue, 1837 [vol. 2], vol. 2: 191
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989, p. 108-109
- Simpson, Francis, A series of ancient baptismal fonts: chronologically arranged, drwan by F. Simpson, Jun., engraved by R. Roberts, London: Septimus Prowett, 1828, p. 19-20
- Sutton, A.F., "A Description of the Churches Visited in the Excursion from Sleaford, June 30th and July 1st, 1903", XXVII, Reports and Papers Read at the Meetings of the Architectural Societies of the Diocese of Lincoln, County of York, Archdeaconry of Northampton, County of Bedford, Diocese of Worcester, County of Leicester and Town of Sheffield, 1904, pp. 92-111; p. 101