Caistor No. 2 / Castor

INFORMATION

FontID: 05577CAI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located about 20 km SW of Grimsby
Font Location in Church: In the centre of the nave, at the W of the chancel arch
Date: ca. 1873?
Century and Period: 19th century, Victorian
Workshop/Group/Artisan: William Butterfield
Illustrated in Fisher (1962). Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) as stone baptismal font designed by William Butterfield, the Victorian architect, for the 1873 restoration of this church. Octagonal mounted font; the basin is prismatic, the lower side narrower than the upper; it has mouldings at top and bottom and a large motifs (leaf?) on the west side panel; the pedestal base is also prismatic but its proportions are the opposite (i.e., narrower at top than at bottom). The whole is raised on an octagonal pedestal. The font cover is a tallish dome of Jacobean style, but probably 19th-century, like the font itself. [NB: the church goes back to early Norman times but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th cen.? / Jacobean?
Material: wood,

REFERENCES

Fisher, Ernest Arthur, The Greater Anglo-Saxon Churches: an Architectural-Historical Study, London: Faber and Faber, 1962
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989