Skirbeck No. 1 / Schirebec / Scirebec / Skirkberck

There are two entries for Skirbeck [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF3343/skirbeck/] [accessed 12 August 2022], one of which, the land of Count Alan of Brittany, reports two churches and two priests in it. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a Restoration baptismal font dated 1662 [NB: C&H use "Skirkbeck" in their entry for this font]. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a baptismal font "put up in 1662" to replace the former font "destroyed by Cromwell". Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) note two fonts and one font cover: "The old one (N aisle E) is plain, moulded, octagonal,and dated on the stem 1662, the new one is of 1901 by J. O. Scott. Font cover. The upper part Jacobean." The font cover [cf. supra], too large for the new font, has a lower octagonal volume of vertical sides with window openings to the inside [this part Jacobean according to Pevsner & al [cf. supra]; the upper volume is a tall pyramid, also octagonal, plain but for the decorated arrises; the counterweight of the font is described in Bond (ibid.) as "a vase of iron painted". The entry for this church in British Listed Buldings [Listing NGR: TF3378943104] reports: "font of 1901, octagonal with carved quatrefoils, by JO Scott. Tall elaborate wooden font cover, partly C17. Earlier font dated 1660 now used as communion table base." [cf. Index entry for Skirbeck No. 2 for earlier fonts disappeared from Skirbeck].