Stamford No. 1 / Stamford Baron / Stamford St Martin / Stanford

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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design element - patterns - tracery - varied

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design element - patterns - tracery - varied

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design element - patterns - tracery - varied

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design element - patterns - tracery - varied

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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design element - patterns - tracery - varied

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2013 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3578809] [accessed 16 April 2019]

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "It is thought that the original church was ruined after the sack of the town in 1461. However, other churches were little damaged, so a more likely reason is that it was neglected by the nuns who owned it at the time. The present church was built in the 1480s."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 November 2016 by Jules & Jenny [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stamford,_St_Martin's_church_(30137063434).jpg] [accessed 16 April 2019)

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view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 November 2016 by Jules & Jenny [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stamford,_St_Martin's_church_(30468321230).jpg] [accessed 16 April 2019)

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Scene Description: the baptismal font ca.1812, before it was re-mounted on a modern base

Image Source: digital image of an engraving by J. Basire in Repton (1812)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09352STA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin Without [originally from St. Michael's church]

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Church Location: 16, 18 High St, Stamford PE9 2LF, UK -- Tel.: +44 1780 753356

Country Name: England

Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located about 25 km NW of Peterborough. The church is located on High St. St. Martin's

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln

Historical Region: Hundred of Ness

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Peter Fairweather, of www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk, and to Janice Tostevin for their photographs of this font.

Church Notes: 12thC church; re-built 15thC; restored 19thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are ten entries for Stamford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF0207/stamford/] [accessed 18 April 2019]; one of the entries reports a church in it; another entry reports two churches in it. A font here is illustrated with an engraving by J. Basire in Repton (1812), who notes the font as an specimen "from about the reign of King Edward the Second [1307+] to that of Richard the Second [1377+]", an octagonal basin resting directly on a square plinth; Repton (ibid.) adds that "some of the ornamentsd of the font at Stamford, composed of circles, are like the style of windows which prevailed about the reign of King John [1199+] or Henry the Third [1216+], as at St. Alban's, Westminster Abbey, &c." The font is noted in Paley (1844). Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. The sides of the octagonal basin are covered in a combination of trefoil arches and tracery; Repton's illustration shows a horizontal crackabout 2/3 down the basin sides. The Old Towns site [www.oldtowns.co.uk/Lincolnshire/stamford.htm], ca. 1841, reports "a fine perpendicular pannelled font" in this church. It is an octagonal mounted baptismal font probably of the 14th or 15th century; the tapering basin sides are decorated with an assortment of tracery motifs, chiefly trefoil and quatrefoil windows and arches; the narrower stem of the base, also octagonal, is decorated with Tudor (?) roses on all sides, but appears to be a modern replacement. A flat and plain wooden lid reinforced with metal decorations covers the basin. Described in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "A tall early C14 bowl with flatly carved blank window patterns, none yet with ogees."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: two?

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989

Repton, John Adey, "Specimens of Fonts, collected from different Churches, by John Adey Repton, Esq. F.A.S. In a Letter addressed to Craven Ord, Esq. F.R.S. and F.A.S.V.P., read 12th March, 1807", XVI, Archaeologia, 1812, pp. 335-337 and pl. XXXVII-XLV; r["References"]