Ancaster / Anecastre

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches - beaded-tape

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 December 2006 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/295784] [accessed 21 May 2012]

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 19 November 2014 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4253749] [accessed 30 September 2018]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 November 2005 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/81148] [accessed 21 May 2012]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the font is partially visible in the bank of seats left of the central aisle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 December 2006 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/295777] [accessed 21 May 2012]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption; "Interior, St Martin's church, Ancaster. Dating from 11th C. onwards, and restored in 1713 and again in 19th C. The church could have evolved from a cruciform Saxon church, maybe of minster status. It has north and south aisles, nave, chancel and 14th C. west tower with spire. The nave has 15th C. clerestory windows and embattled parapet with pinnacles and gargoyles. The east end of the chancel dates from 12th C. The font is 12th C. lead lined tub, with blank arcading decoration.In the 13th C. south porch (rebuilt) there are 14th C effigies of robed priests. The Norman north arcade is of 4 bays, the south arcade is 3 bays. Tall 14th C. tower arch.The tower was restored in 1912."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 October 2012 by J.Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3186752] [accessed 30 September 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the top of the font is visible on the right bank of benches of the nave, about half-way down

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2010 by Gary Brothwell [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2129689] [accessed 30 September 2018]

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view of font

Image Source: woodcut by Orlando Jewitt in Rickman & Parker (1881: 74)

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view of font

Image Source: woodcut by Orlando Jewitt in The Church Builder (issue no. 47 January 1873: 19)

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view of font

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view of font and cover - upper view

Scene Description: Source caption: "The font is 12th C. lead lined tub, with blank arcading decoration."

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 14 October 2012 by J.Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3186773] [accessed 30 September 2018]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 November 2014 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4253749] [accessed 30 September 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01588ANC

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Church Location: 11 Saxon Way, Ancaster, Grantham, Lincolnshire NG32 3RS, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located at the A607-B6403 intersection, 10 km W of Sleaford, 11 km NE of Grantham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln

Historical Region: Wapentake of Loveden

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, N side

Date: ca. 1140?

Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Late Norman

Cognate Fonts: Simpson [cf. FontNotes] gives the font at Osbournby as similar

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No individual entry found for Ancaster in the Domesday survey. Gough (1792) writes of a baptismal font ornamented "with interlaced arches on long pillarets" in this church. In Moule (1837). Noted in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848: "The font is singularly elegant." Described, and illustrated with a woodcut by Orlando Jewitt, in The Church Builder (issue no. 47 January 1873: 19) as "A very sensible and satisfactory mode of treating the baptismal well." In Rickman & Parker (1881), with the same woodcut by Jewitt, as a Norman baptismal font and dated ca. 1140; the image shows a cylindrical basin on a short, plain and equally cylindrical base slightly wider; the upper volume, the basin proper, has an arcade of intersecting round arches of beaded-tape motifn, on tall columns with capitals and bases. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy example of Norman font. Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Norman. Drum-shaped. With thin intersecting arches." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK9827043573] notes: "Parish Church. C11, C12, C13, C14, C15, 1713, restored in C19 [...] a C12 lead lined tub with continuous tall intersecting pelleted blank arcading on its sides." This type is common among early Norman fonts in England, the one at nearby Osbournbury being similar, though not identical; ditto one at Canterbury, Kent.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.979859, -0.538867

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 58′ 47.49″ N, 0° 32′ 19.92″ W

UTM: 30U 665230 5872864

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

Notes on Measurements: [cf. font at Osbournby for similar measurements]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: round, flat and plain; modern

REFERENCES

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"]

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]

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989

Rickman, Thomas, An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of Architecture in England, from the Conquest to the Reformation, with a Sketch of the Grecian and Roman Orders, An [7th ed. -- orig. published in 1817], Oxford and London: Parker and Co., 1881

Simpson, Francis, A series of ancient baptismal fonts: chronologically arranged, drwan by F. Simpson, Jun., engraved by R. Roberts, London: Septimus Prowett, 1828