Thurlby / Thurlby by Bourne / Torulbi / Turoluebi

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design element - motifs - piping

Scene Description: they end at the upper basin side in mask-like motifs

Image Source: digital photograph in Great English Churches [www.greatenglishchurches.co.uk/html/thurlby.html] [accessed 11 October 2015]

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human figure - head?

Scene Description: mask-like -- Source caption: "A “head” that adorns the rim of the font."

Image Source: digital photograph in Great English Churches [www.greatenglishchurches.co.uk/html/thurlby.html] [accessed 11 October 2015]

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view of church exterior - north view

Scene Description: Source caption: "The tower of St Firmin's Church is Anglo-Saxon, and other parts of the church may be pre-Norman. The top of the tower is Decorated and the rest of the church is from various dates."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 May 2013 by Maraton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3445138] [accessed 11 October 2015]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "The village church at Thurlby, near Bourne, Lincolnshire. The parish church at Thurlby is tucked away in a lane alongside the Car Dyke, well maintained and surrounded by a spacious churchyard with the west windows overlooking the fens. The patron saint is St. Firmin, first Bishop of Amiens, who was martyred early in the 4th century, and Thurlby is one of the few churches with his name. A restoration programme for the church windows was completed in 1992 and in 2005, major improvements were made to the church interior at a cost of £110,000 when the Victorian pews were replaced by chairs, a controversial change that is now being adopted by many other churches in the country to create a more spacious nave for community use."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 June 2007 by Rex Needle [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4290471] [accessed 11 October 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Looking towards the chancel with its east window of about 1440."

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "The western aspect is the more interesting. Note the differences in shape and capitals on the two later aisle bays (nearest the camera) from the Norman ones with their distinctive scalloped capitals."

Image Source: digital photograph in Great English Churches [www.greatenglishchurches.co.uk/html/thurlby.html] [accessed 11 October 2015]

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view of font

Image Source: engraving of a drawing by Orlando Jewitt, in Paley (1844)

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "The Norman font is a relatively crude affair. Note the supports which have clearly been re-used from elsewhere - possibly from the original Saxon building."

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "The outer part of the tower arch is Saxon, but the Normans inset it with an arch of their own."

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01613THU

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Firmin

Church Patron Saints: St. Firminus of Amiens [aka Fermin, Firmin]

Church Location: Long Drove, Thurlby, Lincolnshire PE10 0EH

Country Name: England

Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A15, 3 km S of Bourne, 8 pm NNW of Market Deeping [NB: there were 3 Thurlbys in Lincs.]

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln

Historical Region: Hundred of Ness [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, centre of the nave

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval

Cognate Fonts: Hallaton and Jumet [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Diana and Lionel, of Great English Churches [www.greatenglishchurches.co.uk], for their photographs of this church and font. We are also grateful to Pol Herman for his help documenting this font

Church Notes: original church here C11 -- "The [present] Church is chiefly Early English and Decorated, with some portions of Norman work. Between the nave and chancel is some fine screen-work, the remains of the roodloft, the staircases to which still exist." (Paley, 1844, unpaged). Fisher (1962: 308-309) argues that there are Saxon parts in this church.

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There are four entries for this Thurlby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TF0916/thurlby/] [accessed 11 October 2015], none of whci mentions cleric or church in it. Described in Paley (1844): "a very curious Early English Font, and, perhaps, unique in its design". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy example of Early English fonts. The basin is round, bucket-shaped, with eight vertical mouldings which end in mask-like motifs at the upper rim, otherwise totally plain. The base consists of a central plain octagonal pillar and four square shafts adorned with vertical mouldings. The plinth is round. Paley ibid.) identifies the material as "Barnack stone" and gives the present (ca. 1844) location as the centre of the nave, in the west end of the church; he reports, however, that "formerly it was against the westernmost pillar of the south aisle, and opposite the south door" and dates it to late into the 13th century. The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: TF1050316800] (1968) notes: "C12 tub font with octagonal shaft and ribbed sides terminating in anthropomorphic capitals." In Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. E[arly] E[nglish], a curious piece with attached shafts and with convex panels between. Base of core and four shafts, an early example." The font and cover, as well as the church itself, are well illustrated in the entry for this church in Great English Churches [www.greatenglishchurches.co.uk/html/thurlby.html] [accessed 11 October 2015]. A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 29 September 2023) notes the cognate fonts of Hallaton and Thurlby in the UK with the one at Jumet in Belgium

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.737008, -0.364666

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 44′ 13.23″ N, 0° 21′ 52.8″ W

UTM: 30U 677914 5846273

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, oolite (Barnack stone)

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 9 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 57.5 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 75 cm

Basin Depth: 28.5 cm

Basin Total Height: 47.5 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm

Notes on Measurements: Paley (1844: unpaged)

REFERENCES

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

Fisher, Ernest Arthur, The Greater Anglo-Saxon Churches: an Architectural-Historical Study, London: Faber and Faber, 1962

Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989