Theddlethorpe All Saints / West Theddlethorpe

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view of church exterior - south view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 April 2010 by Richard Hoare [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1804118] [accessed 24 October 2013]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 01647THE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of the nave, by the tower arch
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Thacker Bank, Theddlethorpe, Louth, Lincolnshire, LN12 1PE
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A1031, about 14 km ENE of Louth, 16 km NNE of Alford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
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

UTM: 31U 313625 5917145
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.3705, 0.1985
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 22′ 13.8″ N, 0° 11′ 54.6″ E

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, p. 208
  • 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; p. 15
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989, p. 754
  • 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; p. 104