Legbourne No. 2 / Lecheburne / Lekeburn

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 10682LEG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17526264
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Church Ln, Legbourne, Louth LN11 8LN, UK
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A157, about 6 km SE of Louth
Font Notes:
There are two entries for Legbourne [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF3684/legbourne/] [accesseed 25 April 2019] neither of which mentions cleric or church here. Sutton (1898) writes: " The font is good one, larger in proportion than many we have seen, the sides being ornamented with recesses circles containing quatrefoils with a plain shield in each." Described in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with shields in quatrefoils." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF3676284430] notes: "Parish church. c.1380, 1865-8 [...] C19 octagonal font with tall base with traceried panels and bowl decorated with blind shields."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989, p. 433
  • 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; p. 105