Skidbrooke / Skidbroke / Skidbrook-cum-Saltfleet
Image copyright © Peter Chapman? [s.d.]
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Scene Description: article by Peter Chapman in an unknown and undated newspaper(?) reporting the vandalism that destroyed the font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Chapman? [s.d.]
Image Source: scan of a photocopy of a newspaper article sent by Wendy Parkinson (4 March 2007)
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view of church interior
Scene Description: the article by Peter Chapman in an unknown and undated newspaper(?) reporting the vandalism that destroyed the font, shows the font before and after its destruction [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Chapman? [s.d.]
Image Source: scan of a photocopy of a newspaper article sent by Wendy Parkinson (4 March 2007)
Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 10680SKI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Botolph [in the care of The Churches Conservation Trust since 1975]
Church Patron Saints: St. Botulph [aka St. Botolph, Botolph of Thorney, Botulf]
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the B1200 and A1031, 12 km ENE of Louth
Font Location in Church: destroyed [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Early English? / Decorated?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Wendy Parkinson, of www.wparinson.com. for the information and documentation on this font.
Noted in Sutton (1898): "The font is a very plain octagonal one, on a rather small stem and base." Wendy Parkinson [www.wparkinson.com/Saltfleet/church.htm] [accessed 1 March 2007] reports that this church, redundant since 1964, and in the care of the Redundant Churches Fund, "has been subject to mindless vandalism; one of these attacks resulted in the font being pushed from its pillar to shatter on the brickwork floor." [NB: Ms. Parkinson has provided BSI with a photocopy of a newspaper article [source and date not recorded] by Peter Chapman in which the vandalism is reported and photos of the font - before and after- are included]. The font appears completely smashed. [We are grateful to Wendy Parkinson, of www.wparinson.com. for the information and documentation on this font]. [NB: In 'Ecclesiology Today: Journal of the Ecclesiological Sociey' (Issue 33, May 2004), Phil Draper reports that there had been calls to have this church demolished after the Rector of Louth, Canon Stephen Holdaway had stated that "Satanists have been esecrating this church".
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
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"]
