Skirbeck No. 2 / Schirebec / Scirebec / Skirkberck

INFORMATION

Font ID: 05567SKI

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas

Font Location in Church: [disappeared]

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Address: St Nicholas Church, Fishtoft Rd, Boston PE21 0DJ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1205 362734

Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom

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]

Additional Comments: disappeared font: destroyed by Cromwell (according to Bond) -- disappeared fonts? (two fonts from the two churches reported here in Domesday)

Font Notes: Click to view

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

UTM: 30U 700917 5872911

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.9681, -0.008

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 58′ 5.16″ N, 0° 0′ 28.8″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Font Shape: disappeared

Basin Interior Shape: [disappeared]

Basin Exterior Shape: missing

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, p. 289n