Sleaford / Eslaforde / New Sleaford / Old Sleaford / Slioford

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - 12 arches - Ogee arches - cusped - crocketed and pinnacled

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 June 2018 by Dean Bird, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 6 January 2019]

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design element - motifs - floral - 6

Scene Description: these floral motifs appear to crawl up beneath the rim, about the middle of the sides, between the heads, almost like a pinnacle of the lower side arches

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 June 2018 by Dean Bird, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 6 January 2019]

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: in the spandrels of the Ogee arcade

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 June 2018 by Dean Bird, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 6 January 2019]

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design element - patterns - ball-in-socket

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 June 2018 by Dean Bird, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 6 January 2019]

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human figure - male - head - 6

Scene Description: of the three visible bearded males in this image the one in the middle wears a crown of laurel; the one on the right a head covering; at least two of the heads on the other sides are clean-shaven

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 June 2018 by Dean Bird, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 6 January 2019]

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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Sleaford: St. Denys Church from Market Square".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5156739] [accessed 6 January 2019]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5156751] [accessed 6 January 2019]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 June 2015 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4528896] [accessed 6 January 2016]

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view of font and cover

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5156909] [accessed 6 January 2019]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Fourteenth century Decorated octagonal font in the Baptistery of St.Denys' church".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 September 2008 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/960426] [accessed 6 January 2019]

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view of font and cover in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 June 2018 by Dean Bird, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 6 January 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01626SLE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Denys
Church Patron Saints: St. Denys [aka Denis, Dennis, Dionis, Dyonisius]
Church Location: Market Pl, E Gate, Sleaford NG34 7SH, UK -- Tel.: +44 1529 413607
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the B1517, below the A15-A17 junction, 30 km SSE of Lincoln
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Aswardhurn
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Cognate Fonts: Other hexagonal fonts in England: Faringdon, Outwell, Rolvenden, Kegwel, etc.l
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ken Redmore, Website Editor, and Dean Bird, of the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, for the photograph of this font
Church Notes: Domesday church here? -- present church 12th-13thC; modified 14th, 19thC
There are two entries for [New and Old] Sleaford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF0646/new-and-old-sleaford/] [accessed 7 January 2019] one of which reports a priest and a church in it. Paley (1844) lists a hexagonal baptismal font here. Described in Sutton (1904) as an octagonal font "of the Decorated period, with pannelled sides, but much restored." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as one of a few hexagonal fonts in England later than the 14th century [others cited in C&H are: Faringdon, Outwell, Rolvenden and Kegworth]. Described in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. Dec[orated] and much repaired. Stem and bowl in one. Octagonal, with blank two-light Dec[orated] windows and leaf spandrels. Font cover by Wilfred Bond." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF0687645892] notes: "Tower circa 1180, spire circa 1220, forms one of the earliest examples of stone broach, but rebuilt when struck by lightning,1884. [...] Decorated font, much repaired."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.999722, -0.408889
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 59′ 59″ N, 0° 24′ 32″ W
UTM: 30U 673875 5875380

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: hexagonal; modern, by Wilfred Bond

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
Sutton, A.F., "A Description of the Churches Visited in the Excursion from Sleaford, June 30th and July 1st, 1903", XXVII, Reports and Papers Read at the Meetings of the Architectural Societies of the Diocese of Lincoln, County of York, Archdeaconry of Northampton, County of Bedford, Diocese of Worcester, County of Leicester and Town of Sheffield, 1904, pp. 92-111; r["References"]