Tattershall

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LB01: design element - architectural - arcade

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 09940TAT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (basin only)
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the A153, near Coningsby, 15 km SSW of Horncastle
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church Notes: the church is famous for its tomb of a man who was only 18 inches tall but lived to be 100 yaers old -- his tomb is next to the font
Font Notes:
Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. The base has arcading which looks Dec[orated] and would in that case be older than the church." Listed in Stocker (1997) as the basin of a baptismal font "recorded as having been set upside down to provide the base for a successor [...]: a 14th-century font bowl was used as the base for its later 15th-century successor (although the latter bowl has itself been replaced)".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one [basin only]

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, 24