Walcot nr. Folkingham / Walecote
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view of font and cover - north side
Scene Description: Source caption: "Saint Nicholas, Walcot: Font. C13 circular tub font with 20th century oak lid"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bob Harvey, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 9 August 2007 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/525773] [accessed 7 May 2019]
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view of font and cover - west side
Scene Description: Source caption; "Norman tub font with faces and foliage, badly re-cut in the 18th century".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 August 2007 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/525773] [accessed 7 May 2019]
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view of church exterior - southwest end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Acabashi, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 February 2005 by Acabashi [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_Saint_Nicholas,_Walcot,_Lincolnshire,_England.jpg] [accessed 7 May 2019]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "13th century arcades and 15th century pews in St.Nicholas' nave"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 August 2007 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/525826] [accessed 7 May 2019]
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view of font cover - detail
![Source caption: "Saint Nicholas, Walcot: dedicatory plaque on font cover. A simple hexagonal oak cover on the font, dating, as the plaque says, to 1953." [NB: the cover is dodecagonal]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1190507005_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Saint Nicholas, Walcot: dedicatory plaque on font cover. A simple hexagonal oak cover on the font, dating, as the plaque says, to 1953." [NB: the cover is dodecagonal]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bob Harvey, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 27 June 2015 by Bob Harvey [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4543668] [accessed 7 May 2019]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01614WAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [re-cut in the 19thC], Early English [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: Village St, Walcot, Sleaford NG34 0SU, UK
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A15, 2 km NW of Folkingham, 11 km SSW of Sleaford, 15 km E of Grantham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Aveland
Additional Comments: altered font / re-carved (the present font is reported as re-cut) -- disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for this Walcot [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF0635/walcot/] [accessed 7 May 2018]; one of the entries mentions "0.5 church" in it, the other "1 church" in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a noteworthy example of baptismal font of the Early English period here. Described in Betjeman (1958) as a "round Early English font". Described in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. Tub-shaped. Arch heads with leaf motifs, also upside down, and also heads. All badly re-cut, perhaps in the C18." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF0600835163] notes: "Parish church. C12, C13, C14, C15, C17, C18, foundations renewed 1889, restored 1907, 1926. [...] C13 circular tub font with pointed foliate panels to the sides and a band of foliage with human heads beneath."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 673173 5864617
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.90329, -0.4251
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 54′ 11.84″ N, 0° 25′ 30.36″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1953 / modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: dodecagonal and flat, with metal ring handle; modern
REFERENCES
- Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958, p. 249
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 208
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989, p. 780