Saltfleetby All Saints

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view of font and cover - southwest side

Source caption: "Saltfleetby, All Saints Church: The font, c13th bowl on a c14th triple shaft set on later upturned bowl".
Scene Description: Source caption: "Saltfleetby, All Saints Church: The font, c13th bowl on a c14th triple shaft set on later upturned bowl".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5152467] [accessed 19 May 2019]
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8

view of the south side of the basin; notice the large damage area to the upper rim here, where a metal staple split the srone, a common event in stone fonts as the expansion rate of metal and stone in the cold varies
Scene Description: view of the south side of the basin; notice the large damage area to the upper rim here, where a metal staple split the srone, a common event in stone fonts as the expansion rate of metal and stone in the cold varies
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5152471] [accessed 19 May 2019]
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view of church exterior - south view

Source caption: "Saltfleetby: All Saints Church with its tower leaning dramatically westwards".
Scene Description: Source caption: "Saltfleetby: All Saints Church with its tower leaning dramatically westwards".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5152455] [accessed 19 May 2019]
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view of font and cover in context - southwest side

Source caption: "South Arcade. Early English 13th century 5-bay arcade in All Saints' church"
Scene Description: Source caption: "South Arcade. Early English 13th century 5-bay arcade in All Saints' church"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2007
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 3 October 2007 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/573840] [accessed 19 May 2019]
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view of church interior - south aisle - looking west

with the font to the west of the south entranceway
Scene Description: with the font to the west of the south entranceway
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2007
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 3 October 2007 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/573836] [accessed 19 May 2019]
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view of church interior - looking east

Source caption: "Saltfleetby: All Saints Church: c13th arcade of five bays. This separated the nave from the south aisle; there is no north aisle."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Saltfleetby: All Saints Church: c13th arcade of five bays. This separated the nave from the south aisle; there is no north aisle."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5152476] [accessed 19 May 2019]
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human figure - head - grotesque of fantastic? - 4?

two of them are visible here; the present lower base is supposed to be an upturned basin from another font
Scene Description: two of them are visible here; the present lower base is supposed to be an upturned basin from another font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5152467] [accessed 19 May 2019]
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design element - motifs - varied

some of them are partially visible here; one of them may be a shield framed in foliage ; the present lower base is supposed to be an upturned basin from another font
Scene Description: some of them are partially visible here; one of them may be a shield framed in foliage ; the present lower base is supposed to be an upturned basin from another font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5152467] [accessed 19 May 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5152467] [accessed 19 May 2019]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 09891SAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [composite font?], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints [redundant since 1973]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Church Ln, Saltfleetby All Saints, Louth LN11 7TW, UK
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A1031, 12 km ENE of Louth, just S of Saltfleetby St Clement
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Louthesk
Additional Comments: composite font / recycled fonts (two bowls of two fonts form now the font at Saltfleetby)
Font Notes:
The Kelly directories of Lincolnshire for both 1885 and 1905 mention a font of the Early English period in the Parish Church of All Saints, Saltfleetby [source: www.salftfleetby.co.uk]. Fowler (1874) describes the font as "a good specimen of the same style [Transitional], but has lost its shaft, and a later font reversed forms its base." Sutton (1898) notes: "The font of Purbeck marble. This seems to have been reset at some susequent date upon a much later font." Betjeman (1958: 247) describes the font as "a good 13th-century" one. Aegerter (1980) reproduces some notes from a brief history by the late Reverend Keith Jones, Rector of All Saints' from 1959 to 1968; the notes "appeared as a series of articles during 1962/3 in 'The Marshlander' - which he edited", and were re-printed later as an information booklet under the title 'All Saints' Church Saltfleetby--A Short History". The following excerpt is gathered from those notes: "A font was provided, of Purbeck marble [...]; at some date it seems to have been removed and replaced by another, of some 200 years' later date. Later again, the bowl of the original font was returned to the church and placed upon the inverted second font, where it stands to this day." Described in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "The octagonal bowl with quatrefoils looks late C13. It sits on a column with four filleted shafts with rolls between each pair, but the underside shows that it should in fact be on a pillar with eight sgafts. The base appears to be tha inverted base of a C14 font, with grotesques." The composite nature of this font is also noted in Stocker (1997). The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF4552090418] notes: "Parish church, now redundant. C12, C13, C14, C15, 1611, 1873, repaired 1886 [...] Font consisting of 3 separate moulded sections, with C13 octagonal bowl with large trefoils on each face and the filleted capitals of 8 clustered shafts replaced by cluster of C14 filleted pier mouldings, with C15 richly carved octagonal base, possibly a bowl set upside down, with panel tracery and 4 large grotesque heads."

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 312928 5919411
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.3906, 0.1867
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 23′ 26.16″ N, 0° 11′ 12.12″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal pyramid with Latin-cross finial; appears modern

REFERENCES

  • Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958, p. 246
  • Fowler, James T., "The Church of St. James, Louth, and Other Churches Visited by the Society on the 26th and 27th of June, 1873", XII, Reports and Papers Read at the Meetings of the Architectural Societies of the Diocese of Lincoln, County of York, Archdeaconry of Northampton, County of Bedford, Diocese of Worcester, County of Leicester and Town of Sheffield, 1874, pp. 1-21; p. 16-17
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989, p. 620
  • Stocker, D.A., "Fons et origo: The Symbolic Death and Resurrection of English Font Stones", I (1997b), Church Archaeology, 1997, pp. 17-25; p. 17, 24
  • Sutton, A.F., "A Description of the Churches Visited in the Excursion from Louth, July 6th & 7th, 1897", XXIV, part I, Reports and Papers Read at the Meetings of the Architectural Societies of the Diocese of Lincoln, County of York, Archdeaconry of Northampton, County of Bedford, Diocese of Worcester, County of Leicester and Town of Sheffield, 1898, pp. 95-114; p. 103