Heckington / Echintune / Hackington / Hachintone / Hechintune
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animal - head - 8
Scene Description: a tiny animal head is placed at each spandrel of the arcade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Allan Soedring, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph inThe Astoft Collection of Buildings of England [www.astoft.co.uk/heckington.htm
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design element - architectural - arcade - Ogee arches - cusped - 8
Scene Description: one on each side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Allan Soedring, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph inThe Astoft Collection of Buildings of England [www.astoft.co.uk/heckington.htm
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design element - architectural - window - cinquefoiled - 8
Scene Description: one inside each of the arches of the arcade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Allan Soedring, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph inThe Astoft Collection of Buildings of England [www.astoft.co.uk/heckington.htm
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: around the upper basin side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Allan Soedring, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph inThe Astoft Collection of Buildings of England [www.astoft.co.uk/heckington.htm
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julian P Guffogg, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 30 July 2015 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4595983] [accessed 9 July 2019]
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view of church interior - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5151262] [accessed 9 July 2019]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an engraving by Robert Roberts of an drawing by E. Simpson Jr., in Simpson (1828: 47)
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view of font
Scene Description: as displayed in 2003
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Allan Soedring, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph inThe Astoft Collection of Buildings of England [www.astoft.co.uk/heckington.htm
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view of font and cover in context - east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Hoare, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 January 2015 by Richard Hoare [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4323976] [accessed 9 July 2019]
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view of font and cover in context - southeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 April 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/474686] [accessed 9 July 2019]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: at the west end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ashley Dace, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 May 2011 by Ashley Dace [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2431665] [accessed 9 July 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01581HEC
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Church St, Heckington, Sleaford NG34 9RJ, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located about 5 km ESE of Sleaford, 25 km W of Boston just S of the A17
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Aswardhurn
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Allan Soedring and The Astoft Collection of Buildings of England [www.astoft.co.uk/heckington.htm] for the photograph of this font.
There are seven entries for Heckington [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF1444/heckington/] [accessed 28 July 2019] one of which reports a priest and a church in it. Gough (1792) writes that the font "at Hackington [sic] stands on three steps, is octagon, with arches very deeply cut at bottom, which seem to have been painted, and have flowered pediments, capitals, and fascia." Described and illustrated in Simpson (1828) [drawing by F. Simpson; engraving by Robert Roberts]: "The form of this Font is not very common, viz. hexagonal. The design and execution are extremely good, but its beauty is much injured by the removal of the figures which once filled the niches [cf. font at Hale Magna for the same problem], as also by the frequent coats of paint and plaister with which it is covered." This state of affairs had been recorded by Simpson in 1824 but, upon his return in 1827, "we again saw it, and were much gratified by seeing the paint and plaister fast disappearing, through the good taste of the vicar". Shown in Paley (1844) as a hexagonal font, the font is depicted raised on a two-step circular plinth. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 notes: "The font is exquisitely executed". Poole (1848) quotes Rickman ["An Attempt to discriminate..."]: "a hexagon with very rich niches, but sadly mutilated and painted; the design and execution both excellent." Described in Parker (1850) and in Sutton (1904). Hussey (1852) quotes an early (1455) source that reported the original church destitute of font. Described in Cox-Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy example of fonts of the Decorated style. Described in Bond (1908) as a tub font of the 14th century with a hexagonal upper slab. Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as "a hexagonal font of Decorated style", that has "an arcade of straight-sided cocketed arches with a buttress at each angle". Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) note: "Font. Six-sided, Dec[orated], stem and bowl in one. Much crocketing and foliage." [We are grateful to Allan Soedring and The Astoft Collection of Buildings of England [www.astoft.co.uk/heckington.htm] for the photograph of this font]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.9816,
-0.298
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 58′ 53.76″ N,
0° 17′ 52.8″ W
UTM: 30U 681391 5873640
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: hexagonal (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Rim Thickness: 11 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 55 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 77.5 cm*
Basin Depth: 40 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 93.75 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Simpson (1828: 47)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: hexagonal pill-box like with traceried sides; modern
REFERENCES
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
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"]
Hussey, Arthur, Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey mentioned in Domesday Book and those of more recent date [...], London: John Russell Smith, 1852
Jenkins, Simon, England's Thousand Best Churches, London and New York: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999 [2000 rev. printing]
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
Poole, George Ayliffe, A History of Ecclesiastical Architecture in England, London: Printed by Joseph Masters, 1848
Simpson, Francis, A series of ancient baptismal fonts: chronologically arranged, drwan by F. Simpson, Jun., engraved by R. Roberts, London: Septimus Prowett, 1828
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; r["References"]
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928
