Lincoln No. 3 / Lincolia

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns with capitals

Scene Description: all around the sides of the basin

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in English Churches - Lincolnshire [http://wasleys.org.uk/eleanor/churches/england/lincolnshire/lincolnshire_three/lincoln_stpeter/index.html] [accessed 16 December 2018]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 March 2015 by Dave Kelly [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4385574] [accessed 16 December 2018]

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view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 July 2008 by Dave Jitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3368694] [accessed 16 December 2018]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: the old font is partially visible at the far [west] end of the right [north] aisle

Image Source: digital photograph in English Churches - Lincolnshire [http://wasleys.org.uk/eleanor/churches/england/lincolnshire/lincolnshire_three/lincoln_stpeter/index.html] [accessed 16 December 2018]

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09981LIN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter-at-Gowts [now St. Peter and St. Andrew]

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Andrew [formerly St. Peter]

Church Location: Pennell St, Licoln LN5 7TA, UK -- Tel.: 01522 542908

Country Name: England

Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located on High Street [aka B1262], 1.5 km S of the railway, S of Lincoln city centre

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln

Historical Region: Hundred of Lawress

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the N aisle

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century [basin only] -- 3rd - 4th century (?) [base only], Medieval / composite

Church Notes: merged with the Parish of St Andrew's when its church demolished in 1968

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are thirteen entries for Lincoln [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK9771/lincoln/] [accessed 16 December 2018]; one of the entries reports a church in it; another, two churches; a third, two churches; a total of five churches in the twelve entries. Allen (1833) and Moule (1837) report a font of great antiquity here. Described in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. Norman, circular, with arches on short elementary shafts." Listed in Stocker (1997) as one of a group of 'fonts reusing other Roman stone" in the county, in this case the shaft of the baptismal font. [NB: Pevsner & al. (ibid.) note a Roman altar found 13 ft below the surface during the construction of St. Swithin's, on Free School Lane]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK9732070401] notes: "Church. C11, C12, C13, C14. North aisle and porch 1852, by W A Nicholson. Chancel enlarged 1887 by C H Fowler [...] C11 tub font with blind arcading, on a renewed stem." The web site English Churches - Lincolnshire [http://wasleys.org.uk/eleanor/churches/england/lincolnshire/lincolnshire_three/lincoln_stpeter/index.html] [accessed 16 December 2018] notes: "The font is at the back of the north aisle and is Saxo-Norman. It may have been made from a recycled Roman pillar as High Street is on the line of the Roman Fosse Way. It stands on a modern plinth."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.2214, -0.5441

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 13′ 17.04″ N, 0° 32′ 38.76″ W

UTM: 30U 663958 5899715

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: round and flat, with metal decorations and ring handle

REFERENCES

Allen, Thomas, The History of the County of Lincoln, from the earliest period to the present time [...], London & Lincoln: John Saunders, Junior, 1833-

Moule, Thomas, The English counties delineated; or, A topographical description of England [...], London: George Virtue, 1837 [vol. 2]

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; r["References"]