Keddington

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 10700KED
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Margaret [St. Mary's?]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40107459
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina] [a/p Crockford's - but Sutton has St. Mary]
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 2-3 km NW of Louth
Font Notes:
Noted in Sutton (1898): "The font is a good plain octagonal one, the sides carved with tracery." In Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Octagonal, with three little pointed arches to each bay."

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. 411
  • 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. 106