Bottesford / Bottesford nr. Scunthorpe / Budlesforde / Bulesforde

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Source caption: "The font. “Harris’s Guide to Churches and Cathedrals” describes it thus: “The font is unique in being a pseudo-Gothic octagonal bowl resting on a Renaissance base with bulbous legs, again like an Elizabethan dining table”."
Scene Description: Source caption: "The font. “Harris’s Guide to Churches and Cathedrals” describes it thus: “The font is unique in being a pseudo-Gothic octagonal bowl resting on a Renaissance base with bulbous legs, again like an Elizabethan dining table”."
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view of church exterior - southeast view

Font image
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Image Source: digital photograph in Great English Churches [http://greatenglishchurches.co.uk/html/bottesford.html] [accessed 27 July 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west

the modern font at the far [west] end
Scene Description: the modern font at the far [west] end
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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Font image
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 01604BOT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter ad vincula
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter ad vincula?
Church Address: Old School Lane, Bottesford, North Lincolnshire DN16 3RA
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A159, in the SSE suburbs of Scunthorpe
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Manley
Additional Comments: 2 disappeared fonts? (the one from the Domesday-time church here + the 13thC font reported below [cf. FontNotes])
Font Notes:
The are two entries for this Bottesford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE8907/bottesford/] [accessed 27 July 2015], one of which reports a church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Early English period here. English Heritage [Listing NGR: SE8994507022] (1967) reports a 19th-century font here.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 656041 5936253
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.551942, -0.644522
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 33′ 6.99″ N, 0° 38′ 40.28″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

REFERENCES

  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 208