Thorpe St. Peter / Thorpe Saint Peter / Torp

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cleric - bishop - head - wearing mitre

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Image Source: digital image of an engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - columns - with capitals and bases

design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: One such in each of the spandrels of the arcade which covers the basin side

design element - motifs - foliage

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human figure - male - head - king

Scene Description: Wearing "fleur-de-lis" crown

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human figure - male - head - knight

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information

Scene Description: font and corresponting text in Paley (1844)

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view of church exterior - south view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 November 2010 by Gary Brothwell [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2139833] [accessed 20 January 2019]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: view west from the east side of the chancel screen; the font is visible at the far end, by the tower arch

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Image Source: digital photograph taken July 2016, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 20 January 2019]

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view of font

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01612THO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Wainfleet Rd, Thorpe St Peter, Skegness PE24 4NS, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the B1195, 2 km NW of Wainfleet, about 12 kms SW of Skegness.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Bolingbroke
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Church Notes: present church ca. 1200?
There are three entries for Thorpe [St Peter] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF4860/thorpe-st-peter/] [accessed 20 January 2019] one of which reports a church in it. If both Harvey & Cox (1907), who describe a font here with his usual " noteworthy example", and Paley (1844) refer to the same font -the one at Thorpe St. Peter's parish church- it is indeed a noteworthy example or, in Paley's more generous description, a "chaste and beautifully designed Font of the Early English period" which should be "carefully restored according to the original design [the corner shafts are missing], as few would then exceed it in beauty" (Paley, ibid.) "The bowl is cylindrical, and is ornamented with an arcade of elegantly formed trefoil arches, with foliage in the spandrels" (ibid.) The moulding at the bottom rim of the basin indents to create four small arches at a 90 degree angle of each other; the first arch (L->R) houses a king's head, the next a bishops', the next a knights' and the last one, a knot of foliage. At the time [ca. 1844] the only remaining part of the base was the central octagonal pillar, but Paley (ibid.) states that the original base had four corner shafts as well. Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. E[arly] E[nglish], with pointed-trefoiled arches on colonnettes. Heads against the underside." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF4849660683] notes: "Parish church. c.1200, late C13, C14, C15, C16, restored C19. [...] Early C13 drum font with trefoil headed arcade supported on slender jambs with moulded capitals and fleur-de-lys in spandrels; below capitals of original pedestal including human heads. C14 octagonal pedestal below." The font is noted and illustrated in the entry for this church in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thislocation=Thorpe St Peter] [accessed 20 January 2019].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.12213, 0.2173
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 7′ 19.67″ N, 0° 13′ 2.28″ E
UTM: 31U 313800 5889475

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 13.5 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 57.5 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 85 cm
Basin Depth: 45 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 117.5 cm
Notes on Measurements: Paley (1844, unpaged)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with metal ring handle; modern

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