Great Gonerby

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B01: design element - architectural - window - varied windows

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 01621GON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Sebastian
Church Patron Saints: St. Sebastian
Church Location: High St, Great Gonerby, Grantham NG31 8LB, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1476 360768
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 2 km NW of Grantham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Church Notes: church ca. 1200; re-built 1500
Font Notes:
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. Dec[orated], octagonal, stem and bowl in one. With eight different patterns of Dec[orated] windows, like a pattern book."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.942704, -0.666616
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 56′ 33.73″ N, 0° 39′ 59.82″ W
UTM: 30U 656790 5868445

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989