Kirkby-la-Thorpe No. 1 / Kirkby la Thorpe / Kirkby Laythorpe

Results: 2 records

B01: design element - motifs - tracery

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

B02: design element - patterns - crenellated

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

INFORMATION

FontID: 09995KIR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Denis [originally from St. Peter's]
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the A 17, 4 km E of Sleaford
Font Location in Church: Reported ca. 1904 in a garden -- later moved into St. Peter's
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church Notes: Church pulled down in 1593 [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
Sutton (1904) writes: "Originally there were two churches in this parish, that of S. Peter was pulled down in 1593, when the living was consolidated with this one. The font which we have just passed in a garden is all that remains of the church." Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) located the font originally from St. Peter's at St. Denis': "octagonal [...] Perp[endicular], with tracery with much small crenellation." [cf. Index entry for Kirkby-la-Thorpe No. 2 for the font at St. Denis']

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989
Sutton, A.F., "A Description of the Churches Visited in the Excursion from Sleaford, June 30th and July 1st, 1903", XXVII, 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, 1904, pp. 92-111; p. 104