Evedon

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Source caption: "St Mary's Church, Evedon. Grade II listed. 13th Century onwards. The nave contains a cast iron tortoise stove inscribed "Slow but sure combustion""
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's Church, Evedon. Grade II listed. 13th Century onwards. The nave contains a cast iron tortoise stove inscribed "Slow but sure combustion""
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J.Hannan-Briggs, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 21 August 2011 by J.Hannan-Briggs [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2565718] [accessed 15 February 2025]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

INFORMATION

Font ID: 01638EVE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century (?), Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A17, 4 km NE of Sleaford
Historical Region: Hundred of Flaxwell [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
There are seven entries for Evedon in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF0947/evedon/] [accessed 15 February 2025], one of which, in the lordship of Kolgrim (of Grantham), reports a church in it. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with shields in cusped fields." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF0928347594] reports: "Parish church. C13, C14, C15, C16, aisle demolished 1809, restored 1898 [...] C14 octagonal font richly carved with cusped blank tracery to the sides and stem, armorial shields and the initials AR."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 676221 5877167
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.015, -0.373
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 0′ 54″ N, 0° 22′ 22.8″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: letters
Inscription Location: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Text: "AR"
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 208
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989, p. 273