Burwell nr. Lincoln No. 1 / Buruelle
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Octagonal Perpendicular font in St.Michael's church with an inscription saying that it was given by Thomas Fitzwilliam in 1460"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 March 2016 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4893864] [accessed 20 July 2016]
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symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - in a square - 8
Scene Description: deeply carved
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2007
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 21 March 2016 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4893864] [accessed 20 July 2016]
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2007
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 21 March 2016 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4893864] [accessed 20 July 2016]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2007
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 April 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/428487] [accessed 20 July 2016]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julian P Guffogg, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2013 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3572993] [accessed 20 July 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: with the font in the context of the west end of the nave and the south entrance
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 April 2013 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3648470] [accessed 20 July 2016]
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view of church interior - chancel arch - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "1,000 year old horse. A headless horse on a Norman capital in St.Michael's church".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 November 2007 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/621191] [accessed 20 July 2016]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 November 2007 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/621173] [accessed 20 July 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
![Source caption: "The church dates from the early 12th century onwards, and is built from green sandstone with ashlar dressings and redbrick. The church was built over an older church, ancient Saxon pillars were exposed during repairs in 1985. […] The font is octagonal with shields, and was the gift of Thomas Fitzwilliam in the 15th century."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1160721022_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "The church dates from the early 12th century onwards, and is built from green sandstone with ashlar dressings and redbrick. The church was built over an older church, ancient Saxon pillars were exposed during repairs in 1985. […] The font is octagonal with shields, and was the gift of Thomas Fitzwilliam in the 15th century."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julian P Guffogg, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2013 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3573008] [accessed 20 July 2016]
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design element - architectural - window - trefoiled - 16
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2007
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 21 March 2016 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4893864] [accessed 20 July 2016]
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design element - architectural - buttress - pinnacled - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2007
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 21 March 2016 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4893864] [accessed 20 July 2016]
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inscription
Scene Description: credits the donation of the font in 1460 to one Thomas Fitzwilliam [full transcription not available]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2007
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 21 March 2016 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4893864] [accessed 20 July 2016]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01633BUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1460
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (mid), Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael [redundant]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Notes: original church early-12thC; modified 15th, 16th, 18th and 19thC; became redundant 1981; in the care of the Redundant Churches Fund since 1982
Church Address: Burwell, Lincolnshire LN11 8PR
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A16, 5 km W of Authorpe, 8 km SSE of Louth, ENE of Lincoln
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Louthesk [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: altered font / re-cut font (the present one) -- disappeared font? (the one from the early-12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Burwell [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TF3579/burwell/] [accessed 20 July 2016]; it mentions a church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period here. The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: TF3557279697] (1967) reports a "C15 octagonal font with shields contained in cusped panels, traceried pedestal and plinth with inscription saying it was the gift of Thomas Fitzwilliam."
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 302187 5909413
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.296935, 0.031638
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 17′ 48.97″ N, 0° 1′ 53.9″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Location: on the plinth [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Text: [full transcription not available]
Inscription Notes: given by Thomas Fitz-William in 1460 [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, flat and plain; appears modern
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 208