Tattershall

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 09940TAT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, basin only
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17526355
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
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
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A153, near Coningsby, 15 km SSW of Horncastle
Additional Comments: recycled font: the basin of the old font used as base for the new one; then the new basin replaced! / composite 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, p. 744
  • 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