Moulton nr. Spalding / Multune

Image copyright © Bob Harvey, 2017

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New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of All Saints: Paint on the Adam and Eve font. One of the carved panels on the bowl of the font still has some of the paint controversially applied in 1800 and subsequently removed at the behest of the congregation."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bob Harvey, 2017

Image Source: digiital photograph taken 19 April 2017 by Bob Harvey [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5378789] [accessed 26 December 2018]

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Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve - Adam, Eve and the Serpent

Scene Description: the stem of the base being the Tree of Knowldge

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bob Harvey, 2017

Image Source: digiital photograph taken 19 April 2017 by Bob Harvey [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5378788] [accessed 26 December 2018]

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Old Testament - the ark ~ story of Noah

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of All Saints: Noah's Ark on the Adam & Eve font. One of the panels on the bowl of the font of 1719 is of Noah's Ark."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bob Harvey, 2017

Image Source: digiital photograph taken 19 April 2017 by Bob Harvey [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5378792] [accessed 26 December 2018]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "All Saints' church, Moulton. Late 12th century Early English church with a lofty Perpendicular tower and spire rising to 165ft"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2007 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/571747] [accessed 26 December 2018]

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view of church exterior - west portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of All Saints: The Doorway. The main entrance to the church is the West door, in the base of the tower."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bob Harvey, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 April 2017 by Bob Harvey [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5378753] [accessed 26 December 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - arcade

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of All Saints: The Arcades. Standing in the North Aisle, looking through the North Arcade to the South Arcade, lit by the Clerestory above".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bob Harvey, 2017

Image Source: digiital photograph taken 19 April 2017 by Bob Harvey [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5379511] [accessed 26 December 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - arcade

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of All Saints: The Arcades. Looking from the South Aisle, through the South Arcade to the North one. The carved rood screen can just be made out in the middle".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bob Harvey, 2017

Image Source: digiital photograph taken 19 April 2017 by Bob Harvey [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5379506] [accessed 26 December 2018]

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view of church interior - north aisle - looking west

Scene Description: showing one of the fonts at the far [west] end

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2004

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 June 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3777749] [accessed 26 December 2018]

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view of church interior - object

Scene Description: standing vertically against the pillar; it is shallow and has two drains; one of the drains, seen here at the top, may have been cut from an already existing notch, as there is one on the opposite side, near the drain hole -- some of the present characteristics may correspond to the object being re-used as a trough or similar

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2004

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 June 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3777726] [accessed 26 December 2018]

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view of church interior - south aisle - piscina

Scene Description: Source caption: "This Piscina is at the head of the South Aisle".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bob Harvey, 2017

Image Source: edited detail of a digiital photograph taken 19 April 2017 by Bob Harvey [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5389491] [accessed 26 December 2018]

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view of font

Scene Description: the Adam & Eve font [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2004

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 June 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3777771] [accessed 26 December 2018]

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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2004

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 June 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3777728] [accessed 26 December 2018]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of All Saints: The Victorian Font. Dating from the 1868 restoration, this font is not much loved, and when I visited the curchwarden was telling me they want to remove it, because the steps make access tricky and the passing of an infant to the celebrant hazardous. There are three fonts in the church, so it won't be missed."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bob Harvey, 2017

Image Source: digiital photograph taken 19 April 2017 by Bob Harvey [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5378775] [accessed 26 December 2018]

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view of font cover

Scene Description: the font cover of the Victorian font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2004

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 June 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3777775] [accessed 26 December 2018]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of All Saints: The "Adam and Eve" font"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bob Harvey, 2017

Image Source: edited detail of a digiital photograph taken 19 April 2017 by Bob Harvey [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5378783] [accessed 26 December 2018]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of All Saints: A portable font. This is the fourth font, extra to the three in the guide book. This is the sort of portable font that would have been taken in extremis to baptise the sick or infants not expected to long survive childbirth".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bob Harvey, 2017

Image Source: digiital photograph taken 19 April 2017 by Bob Harvey [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5378780] [accessed 26 December 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05895MOU
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: 2 High St, Moulton, Spalding PE12 6NL, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B1357, S of the A151 [aka High Rd], 6 km W of Holbeach, 8 km E of Spalding town centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Elloe
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1719?
Century and Period: 17th century/ 18th century / 19th century, Georgian? / Victorian?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: William Tydd?
Cognate Fonts: claimed to be a Victorian copy of the Grinling Gibbons font in St. James Piccadilly; also similar to the wooden font at Parham House, Sussex
Church Notes: Moulton All Saint's originally built ca. 1200 -- St James' at Moulton Chapel, near Moulton, built 1722 with contemporary font
There are two entries for this Moulton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF3024/moulton/] [accessed 26 December 2018] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Allen (1833) writes: "The font is curious, and several scripture pieces are painted on its sides" [NB: Allen (ibid.) footnotes this description with a confusing tale about a fight between the parishoners of Moulton, the bishop and the courts; it involved the painting of images of the Apostles and the Holy Ghost on the font, apparently, by the parishoners, and the removal of the said images by order of the bishop; these actions took place in the 1680s -- a more accurate description would be to call the two scenes on the basin sides as carved, and said to have been later painted, and later still most of the paint scraped off at the [some?] parishoners' request]. Described in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. Stem with its [eft] and r[ight] Adam and Eve. Bulgy bowl with Baptism of Christ. Possibly made in 1719 by William Tydd, though also reputed to be a mild C19 copy of the one in St James Piccadilly by Grinling Gibbons." [NB: information received directly from Parham House, Sussex [cf. Index entry for the font at that location] indicates that the font there is "similar to the one at Moulton, Licolnshire, and another in marble in St James' Church, London" [cf. Index entry for London No. 3]. There are four objects in this church that could qualify as fonts at this time [April 2017]: the Adam & Eve font; a Victorian font located near the west entranceway, a small cylindrical stone basin with lined bowl, and a large stone object that appears to be a part of an old font; the Victorian font is, according to one source [cf. ImagesArea], being considered for removal as a health-and-safety concern; the large old stone is too shallow to have been an ancient font, has two drains that are uncharacteristic of such fonts, and does not appear to have a known history within this church to have been the font of the medieval building.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.79849, -0.0625
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 47′ 54.56″ N, 0° 3′ 45″ W
UTM: 30U 698030 5853900

REFERENCES

Allen, Thomas, The History of the County of Lincoln, from the earliest period to the present time [...], London & Lincoln: John Saunders, Junior, 1833-
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989