Benington / Beningtone / Beningtun / Bennington

Results: 5 records

INFORMATION

Font ID: 05092BEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17526101
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Notes: NB: the Churches in England site [www.churchesinengland.co.uk] notes: "Derelict and abandoned, Benington Church in South Lincolnshire. At best to become an art centre at worst who knows?" [site visited 25 Jan 2006] -- The church is a Grade I building, partly from the Early English period
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A52, about 7-8 km ENE of Boston
Font Notes:
Described in Gough (1792): "octagon, adorned with the figure of the Deity holding the crucifix between his knees and souls in his hands, two Angels censing him; and the twelve Apostles on each side of him; the shaft also octagon has eight Apostles." Engraved in Archaeologia (vol. X: 103). In Allen (1833), verbatim after Gough. Noted in Paley (1844) and in Bond (1908) as a a baptismal font that rests on a plinth with two projecting steps. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 describes it simply as "a curious font". In Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "The base with two kneeling stones (cf. Freiston). The font is octagonal, of ironstone. Big leaves on the foot. On the stem and the bowl small, pretty, but elementary figures under crocketed gables. On one panel the Trinity with two angels."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

  • Allen, Thomas, The History of the County of Lincoln, from the earliest period to the present time [...], London & Lincoln: John Saunders, Junior, 1833-, vol. 1: 267
  • Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 94
  • Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; p. 193
  • Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=50792] [accessed 16 January 2007]
  • Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 18
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989, p. 143