Flixborough
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 09869FLI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints [orig. from the old church at Little Conesby?]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26397764
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located N of Scunthorpe
Font Notes:
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Described in Kelly's Trade Directory of 1900 as a baptismal font of the Norman period from the original church in this site [transcription available in the web page of the North Lincolnshire Council: http://www.northlincs.gov.uk/NorthLincs/Leisure/libraries/localstudies/localhistorypacks/Flixborough.htm]. Stockner (1997: 21ff and fig. 5) writes that this font "was reportedly brought from the ruins of the former church of Little Conesby, half a mile away, and has been claimed as Anglo-Saxon in date. The only decoration is the small incised cross, which might be evidence that the font bowl has been formally consecrated". It is a round basin with slightly tapering sides, the lower rim chamfered [NB: the incised cross could have been added at any point in the font's past]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and plain in Stockner's illustration
REFERENCES
- Stocker, D.A., "Fons et origo: The Symbolic Death and Resurrection of English Font Stones", I (1997b), Church Archaeology, 1997, pp. 17-25; p. 21ff and fig. 5
- Stocker, D.A., "Fons et origo: The Symbolic Death and Resurrection of English Font Stones", I (1997b), Church Archaeology, 1997, pp. 17-25; p. 21ff and fig. 5