Folkingham / Falkingham

INFORMATION

Font ID: 09913FOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Andrew%27s_Church,_Folkingham
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Notes: The church is believed to have been built in the 12th century, with considerable changes in the mid-14th century and again in the mid-15th century
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A15, just S of the A52, 20 km ESE of Grantham
Additional Comments: recycled font : buried font ; Listed in Stocker (1997: 17ff) as one of five early "fonts discovered buried beneath church floors (at Bassingham, Cabourne, Covenham St Mary, Ewerby and Folkingham)" in Lincolnshire.
Font Notes:
Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) note only the 18th-century font in this church: "A heavy baluster and a fluted bowl." Stocker (1997), however, reports another font in this church, one of five early "fonts discovered buried beneath church floors (at Bassingham, Cabourne, Covenham St Mary, Ewerby and Folkingham)" in Lincolnshire. Stocker mentions that it was a Norman font "discovered below the 18th-century font".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989, p. 282
  • Stocker, D.A., "Fons et origo: The Symbolic Death and Resurrection of English Font Stones", I (1997b), Church Archaeology, 1997, pp. 17-25; p. 17ff