Skirbeck No. 2 / Schirebec / Scirebec / Skirkberck
INFORMATION
FontID: 05567SKI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: St Nicholas Church, Fishtoft Rd, Boston PE21 0DJ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1205 362734
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off local road A1138, 1.5 km SSE of Boston town centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Wolmesrty [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Century and Period: , Medieval
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Reported in Bond (1908) as a baptismal font "destroyed by Cromwell". A later font was "put up in 1662" (ibid.) [cf. Index entry for Skirbeck No. 1]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.9681,
-0.008
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 58′ 5.16″ N,
0° 0′ 28.8″ W
UTM: 30U 700917 5872911
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Font Shape: [disappeared]
Basin Interior Shape: [disappeared]
Basin Exterior Shape: [disappeared]
LID INFORMATION
Date: Jacobean / 17th century
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: yes
Notes: [cf. Index entry for Skirbeck No. 1]
REFERENCES
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908