Yarburgh / Yarborough

INFORMATION

FontID: 10701YAR

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Country Name: England

Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A16, 5-6 km NNE of Louth

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Font Notes: Click to view

Noted in Sutton (1898): "The font is a plain octagonal one, without any ornamentation." In Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular]."

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 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. 108