Braceborough / Braceburg / Braceburgh / Braseborg / Breseburc / Breseburg
Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2013
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design element - architectural - arcade
Scene Description: the modern replica font or, is it a re-cutting?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2013
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 27 August 2013 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3624741] [accessed 8 October 2018]
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design element - motifs - diamond or lozenge
Scene Description: the modern replica font or, is it a re-cutting?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2013
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 27 August 2013 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3624741] [accessed 8 October 2018]
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design element - motifs - zigzag
Scene Description: the modern replica font or, is it a re-cutting?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2013
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 27 August 2013 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3624741] [accessed 8 October 2018]
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view of basin
Scene Description: Source caption: "St.Margaret's old font? Possibly an Early English font bowl by St.Margaret's south porch - or possibly the lower part of a churchyard cross with broaches and a substantial socket for an octagonal shaft ?"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2013
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 27 August 2013 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3624736] [accessed 8 October 2018]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tim Heaton, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 November 2017 by Tim Heaton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5600812] [accessed 8 October 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "St.Margaret's nave. View west in St.Margaret's nave to the enigmatic tower arch and flanking early 14th century arches. There were presumably arcades that extended around the tower, most likely reduced in the 18th century restoration when the smaller tower arch was also inserted." -- the font is located beneath the tower, practically invisible in this image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2013 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3624703] [accessed 8 October 2018]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "St.Margaret's font. A rather clumsy attempt at a replica Norman font in St.Margaret's church, probably 18th century." -- or, is it a re-cutting?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2013 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3624741] [accessed 8 October 2018]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01593BRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Location: Braceborough, Stamford PE9 4NT, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located between the A15 and the A6121, about 6 km S of Bourne, 10 km NE of Stamford, 10 km NW of Market Deeping
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Ness
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century [re-cut?], Early English [altered]
Font Notes:
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There are four entries for Barceborough [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF0813/braceborough/] [accessed 8 October 2018], one of which reports "0.3 churches" in it. Paley (1844) notes that the font at Braceborough is "apparently too low and small to have been originally without [a stem or base]". Cox & Harvey (1907) list this as a noteworthy example of Norman font. The local web site [www.homepages.which.net/~rex/bourne/braceborough.htm] describes "its square bowl carved with arches, zigzag and diamond pattern". Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989), however: "Font. Square, Norman, but an imitation." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF0824913296] notes: "Parish church. C14, C15, 1662 porch, C18 alterations, 1859 chancel rebuilt and church restored by Mr. Kirk of Sleaford. [...] Fittings are all C19 apart from the recut square C13 font, now with C17 chevrons, loops and lozenges." [NB: there is an object in the churchyard, by the south porch, that some have seen as the possible basin of an earlier font here; Richard Croft [cf. ImagesArea] asks whether a basin or the base of a churchyard cross].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.707, -0.399
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 42′ 25.2″ N, 0° 23′ 56.4″ W
UTM: 30U 675717 5842851
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844