Torksey / Dorchesyg / Torchesyg
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Results: 7 records
view of font and cover
Scene Description: only the basin is original
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Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2017, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 20 January 2019]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Bond (1908)
Copyright Instructions: PD
design element - motifs - foliage - stiff-leaf
Scene Description: not quite a vine
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken August 2017, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 20 January 2019]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: several, all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken August 2017, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 20 January 2019]
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design element - motifs - beaded-tape
Scene Description: around the middle of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken August 2017, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 20 January 2019]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gary Brothwell, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 July 2010 by Gary Brothwell [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2137188] [accessed 20 January 2019]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "The north aisle was rebuilt in 1821 by William Hayward, but the Early English three-bay arcade remains. The chancel was rebuilt in the 19th century, and uses an altar with a 15th century lettered slab. This was a Memorial to Margaret de Multon, Prioress at the nunnery which was established in the year 1200. The chancel arch has two carved heads, one of the Bishop and the other of a Green Man. The south wall of the nave has a small figure, possibly a Sheela na Gig."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jules & Jenny, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2015 by Jules & Jenny [www.flickr.com/photos/78914786@N06/18071782568] [accessed 20 January 2019]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05653TOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: the priory of Fosse, a Cistercian nunnery, is said to have been founded by Torksey people before 1199; a very poor house, it was surrendered in 1538
Church Address: Church Ln, Torksey, Gainsborough LN1 2YZ , UK -- Tel.: 01522 702427
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A156, 5 km N of Newton-on-Trent, 11 km S of Gainsborough, 15 km WNW of Lincoln
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Well
Additional Comments: altered font? (only the basin is original)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Torksey [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK8378/torksey/] [accessed 20 January 2019] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The font here is illustrated in Bond (1908) as a bucket-shaped baptismal font of the 13th century; it has a band or foliage motif all around the upper basin side, framed between two thin mouldings; about 2/3 down its sides the basin has a thin band of beaded-tape motif all around; at the lower basin side two thin mouldings. The slender pedestal of the base appears round. [NB: the text reference to p. 211 in Bond is blind]. The GENUKI site [www.genuki.org.uk] records "a font of Norman origin" in this church. Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. Big, E[arly] E[nglish], of tub shape. Lively stiff-leaf frieze along the upper part of the bowl." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK8369978951] notes: "Parish church. Early C13, late C13, C16, 1821 rebuilding of nave, aisle and chancel. [...] All fittings are C19 or C20 except far the font. This is an early C13 tub which has a zone of stiff leaf decoration around the top, a hobnail band around the middle, it sits on a C19 pedestal."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ken Redmore, Website Editor, the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, for the photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 650244 5908089
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.300671, -0.745375
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 18′ 2.42″ N, 0° 44′ 43.35″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain; modern
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, ill on p. 224
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989, p. 768