Alvinham

INFORMATION

FontID: 09941ALV
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Adelwold
Church Patron Saints: St. Adelwold
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 5 km NE of Louth
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Decorated
Noted in Sutton (1898): "The font, a very plain octagonal one, rests upon the inverted capiyal of a pillar, which siggests that the church was originally large". Listed in Stocker (1997: 17ff) as one of a group of baptismal fonts in which "a reversed bowl [of earlier date] is suspected, given the present day appearance of the font".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958
Stocker, D.A., "Fons et origo: The Symbolic Death and Resurrection of English Font Stones", I (1997b), Church Archaeology, 1997, pp. 17-25; r["References"]
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; r["References"]