Bolton [not located]

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cleric - 8

Scene Description: each appears to be different, a/p illustration in Richman & Parker (1881)

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - 8

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design element - motifs - nail-head

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design element - patterns - scalloped

Scene Description: just above the columns of the base, a/p illustration in Richman & Parker (1881)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 04804BOL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: not located [cf. FontNotes]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1160?
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Illustrated in Rickman & Parker [woodcut by Orlando Jewitt] (1881) as a Norman baptismal font of ca. 1160; the octagonal basin has a thin band of nail-head motif at the upper rim; the rest of the basin sides is covered with large, one per side, round arches that house a single human figure, they all appear to be clerics, in each; the upper part of the base has scallop-pattern ornamentation; there are several (four?) detached rounded shafts at the base and a octagonal lower base or plinth. The same source [cf. supra] dates the font to ca. 1160. [NB: although listed and illustrated in Rickman & Parker as a font from Bolton, Lincolnshire, we have not been able to locate this Bolton].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Rickman, Thomas, An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of Architecture in England, from the Conquest to the Reformation, with a Sketch of the Grecian and Roman Orders, An [7th ed. -- orig. published in 1817], Oxford and London: Parker and Co., 1881