Theddlethorpe All Saints / West Theddlethorpe
Results: 6 records
animal?
![alternating with square flowers all around the basin [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/bsi-testing-site/others/image_not_available.jpg)
Scene Description: alternating with square flowers all around the basin [cf. Font notes]
design element - motifs - fleuron
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
design element - motifs - floral
design element - motifs - floral - square flower
Scene Description: alternating with animals all around the underbowl
design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - 8
Scene Description: one on each side of the octagonal basin
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Hoare, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 April 2010 by Richard Hoare [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1804118] [accessed 24 October 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 01647THE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Thacker Bank, Theddlethorpe, Louth, Lincolnshire, LN12 1PE
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the A1031, about 14 km ENE of Louth, 16 km NNE of Alford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of the nave, by the tower arch
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Listed in Fowler (1874) as a "noteworthy example" of baptismal font. Sutton (1898) writes: "The font at the west end of the nave is a very graceful one, one different in design to any other in this district, and more ornamented. The octagonal bowl has an upper moulding with carved flowers at intervals, and each face has a circle enclosing a quatrefoil carved on it; the underneath side is carved with large square flowers and animals alternately, resting on a small base with an ornamented stem." Listed in Cox-Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. In Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Octagonal, Perp[endicular], fleurons against the stem, quatrefoils against the bowl, heads against the underside. Font cover. Jacobean."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
53.3705,
0.1985
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
53° 22′ 13.8″ N,
0° 11′ 54.6″ E
UTM: 31U 313625 5917145
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th century? / Jacobean?
Material:
wood,
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Fowler, James T., "The Church of St. James, Louth, and Other Churches Visited by the Society on the 26th and 27th of June, 1873", XII, Reports and Papers Read at the Meetings of the Architectural Societies of the Diocese of Lincoln, County of York, Archdeaconry of Northampton, County of Bedford, Diocese of Worcester, County of Leicester and Town of Sheffield, 1874, pp. 1-21; r["References"]
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989
Sutton, A.F., "A Description of the Churches Visited in the Excursion from Louth, July 6th & 7th, 1897", XXIV, part I, Reports and Papers Read at the Meetings of the Architectural Societies of the Diocese of Lincoln, County of York, Archdeaconry of Northampton, County of Bedford, Diocese of Worcester, County of Leicester and Town of Sheffield, 1898, pp. 95-114; r["References"]