Torksey / Dorchesyg / Torchesyg

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design element - motifs - beaded-tape

Scene Description: around the middle of the basin

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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 - foliage - stiff-leaf

Scene Description: not quite a vine

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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

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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."

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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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view of font

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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Bond (1908)

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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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INFORMATION

FontID: 05653TOR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Church Ln, Torksey, Gainsborough LN1 2YZ , UK -- Tel.: 01522 702427
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
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
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ken Redmore, Website Editor, the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, for the photograph of this font
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
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."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.300671, -0.745375
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 18′ 2.42″ N, 0° 44′ 43.35″ W
UTM: 30U 650244 5908089

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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989