Adwick

INFORMATION

Font ID: 10000ADW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 16th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Edith
Font Location in Church: Reported inside the church ca. 1904
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17526802
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Edith
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: [not located -- error?]
Font Notes:
No entry found for this Adwick in the Domesday survey. Sutton (1904: 111) writes: "The font is perfectly plain, the sides of the octagonal bowl having no ornamentation of any kind". [NB: the font is likely of the 16th century, like most of the pre-restoration elements of the church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

  • 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. 111