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Scene Description: Date: 1686 [cf. Font notes]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
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view of church interior - looking east
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view of church interior - looking west
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Scene Description: the font is partially visible at the far end, left [south] side
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 April 2010 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1830061] [accessed 6 February 2020]
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view of font and cover in context - northeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 April 2010 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1830055] [accessed 6 February 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 07297LUP
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Lupton, Carnforth LA6 2PX, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Cumbria, North West
Directions to Site: Located on the A65, 16 km ESS of Kendal (dir. Kirkby Lonsdale)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Carlisle
Historical Region: formerly Westmoreland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1686?
Century and Period: 17th century, Restoration
Church Notes: present church mid-19thC in neo-Norman style
Font Notes:
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Scott (1899) writes: "Occasionally churchwardens were guilty of what would seem to have been vandalism. At Kirkby Lonsdale (1686), they recorded the lost of a Norman font: 'Received for the old font stone, 6d.'" Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font dated 1686 by an inscription. Pevsner (1967) notes: "Font. From Kirkby Lonsdale church. The RCHM says that a date 1686 is assigned to it. However, it does not look that period." [NB: Kirkby Lonsdale St Mary's dates back to Norman times; whatever the date on the font, it is quite common for earlier fonts to bear dates of restoration after the Reformation; Pevsner may be right and the font may indeed belong to an earlier date despite the date in the inscription, unless the font sold by the churchwardens was the original font from the Norman church]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SD5674480876] notes; "Church. 1867 [...] Plain octagonal font said to be c1686 from Kirkby Lonsdale parish church (RCHM)."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.2218, -2.6649
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 13′ 18.48″ N, 2° 39′ 53.64″ W
UTM: 30U 521849 6008252
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes regarding the possible meaning of this date]
Inscription Text: [1686]
Inscription Source: Cox & Harvey (1907: 175)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal with ball finisl/handle; appears modern
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cumberland and Westmorland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1967
Scott, Daniel, Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland, London: William Andrews & Co., 1899