Folkingham / Falkingham

INFORMATION

FontID: 09913FOL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Country Name: England

Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located on the A15, just S of the A52, 20 km ESE of Grantham

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th century, Norman

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

Font Notes: Click to view

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

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