Burwell nr. Lincoln No. 1 / Buruelle
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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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design element - architectural - window - trefoiled - 16
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2007
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2007
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2007
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inscription
Scene Description: credits the donation of the font in 1460 to one Thomas Fitzwilliam [full transcription not available]
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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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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 - 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 church interior - nave - looking east
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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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 font
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"
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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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INFORMATION
FontID: 01633BUR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: Burwell, Lincolnshire LN11 8PR
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
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]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1460
Century and Period: 15th century (mid), Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
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
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
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
53.296935,
0.031638
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
53° 17′ 48.97″ N,
0° 1′ 53.9″ E
UTM: 31U 302187 5909413
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Notes: given by Thomas Fitz-William in 1460 [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on the plinth [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Text: [full transcription not available]
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