Blyborough

Image copyright © Mark Hurd, 2003
Permission received (e-mail 15 January 2007)
Results: 5 records
B01: design element - motifs - panel - 8
LB01: design element - motifs - foliage
R01: design element - motifs - moulding
view of font and cover
INFORMATION
FontID: 01630BLY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (fragment)?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Alkmund
Church Patron Saints: St. Alkmund [aka Almond, Alcmund]
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 5 km S of Kirton-in-Lindsey
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the N chapel
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Hurd, of www.markhurd.screaming.net/glentworthparishes/blyborough.html] [accessed 17 January 2007] for the photographs of these two fonts]
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "In the N chapel octagonal fragments reassembled from a Perp[endicular] font. Foot with leaf motifs." The remaining composite object looks very awkward, its awkwardness highlighted by the large ogee arch in the wall against which it has been set [NB: the church also has a later [Victorian?] font of fairly traditional design].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 660541 5923197
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: fragments
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, hinged in the middle; appears modern
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989