Market Deeping / East Deeping

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design element - motifs - floral - 8

Scene Description: triangular with a trefoil atop

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2016 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5021062] [accessed 17 April 2019]

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 16

Scene Description: on one of the multiple levels of the pedestal base

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design element - motifs - floral - square flower - 8

Scene Description: on one of the multiple levels of the pedestal base

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

design element - motifs - quatrefoil

Scene Description: on some of the sides of the basin

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symbol - shield - blank - in a dodecafoil

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "The site probably had a church in Anglo-Saxon times as remains of masonry were found in the grounds.The church dates from the late 12th century onwards, and was restored in 1875"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2015 by Jules & Jenny [www.flickr.com/photos/78914786@N06/18923935079] [accessed 17 April 2019]

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view of church interior - looking east

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view of font and cover - northeast side

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01641MAR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Guthlac

Church Patron Saints: St. Guthlac [aka Guthlake]

Church Location: 9 Church St, Market Deeping, Peterborough PE6 8DA, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B1524, E of the A1175, 10 km ENE of Stamford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln

Historical Region: Hundred of Ness

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end

Century and Period: 15th century [altered], Perpendicular [altered?]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font?

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No individual entry found for Market Deeping in the Domesday survey. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period here. Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Octagonal, Perp[endicular]. With foiled or cusped fields." The new guide posted on the Parish web site reads: "The octagonal font is fourteenth century and originally would have had decorated and carved shields, bearing the Wake family arms, around its basin." [NB: it is not clear from the guide above whether or not the coats of arms mentioned existed [painted?] or simply were supposed to have existed on the font sides. The font appears to consist of an octagonal basin the sides of which are decorated with tracery and quatrefoils that appear to have inscribed symbols [shields?]; the underbowl, stem and lower base have moulded ornamentation. Unfortunately the accompanying illustration does not have enough resolution to discern the detail -- [source: 'St Guthlac's Church, Market Deeping' by Lyall Seale (2003), in www.deepingsonline.co.uk/pp/gold/viewGold.asp?IDType=Page&ID=6259] [accessed 20 September 2006]]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF1368210312] notes: "Parish church. Late C12, early C13, early C14, 1440, C15, c.1500, 1875 restoration [...] Recut C15 octagonal font with cusped shields and quatrelobes to the sides, and trefoils on the base."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.678611, -0.32

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 40′ 43″ N, 0° 19′ 12″ W

UTM: 30U 681171 5839890

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: unknown

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and handle

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989