Cuxwold

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BBU01: design element - motifs - scallop

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 01596CUX
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Cuxwold Rd, Yarborough Cl, Swallow, Market Rasen LN7 6DH, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (S) of the A46, near Cabourne, about 40 kms ENE of Lincoln
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Paley (1844) describes as a Norman font in which "the under side of the bowl is bevilled away or rounded off to meet the stem [...] and this hemispherical form is extremely common in Norman fonts as at Cuxwold, Lincolnshire; Clipsham, Rutland; Heydon, Norfolk; Laxton, Northamptonshire; Plymstock, Devonshire." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. Norman, of trough-shape, with a band of falt scallops at the top."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.4937, -0.234857
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 29′ 37.32″ N, 0° 14′ 5.48″ W
UTM: 30U 683425 5930752

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989