Sleaford / Eslaforde / New Sleaford / Old Sleaford / Slioford
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view of font and cover in context
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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 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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
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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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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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 - 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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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 - 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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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 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 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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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01626SLE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Cognate Fonts: Other hexagonal fonts in England: Faringdon, Outwell, Rolvenden, Kegwel, etc.l
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Denys
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Denys [aka Denis, Dennis, Dionis, Dyonisius]
Church Notes: Domesday church here? -- present church 12th-13thC; modified 14th, 19thC
Church Address: Market Pl, E Gate, Sleaford NG34 7SH, UK -- Tel.: +44 1529 413607
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: altered font? (the present one) -- disappeared font? (the one from the original Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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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."
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
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 673875 5875380
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.999722, -0.408889
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 59′ 59″ N, 0° 24′ 32″ W
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, p. 165
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 22
- 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; p. 104