South Scarle

INFORMATION

Font ID: 11110SCA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [restored], Early English [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Helen, South Scarle
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, in the SW corner
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Helena%27s_Church,_South_Scarle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Helena
Church Address: South Scarle, Newark NG23 7JH, United Kingdom
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A1133, 15-20 km SW of Lincoln
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Nottingham
Additional Comments: recycled font: part of the base replaced [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
A visit in 1905 by A. Du Boulay Hills, then Rector of East Brigford [www.nottshistory.org.uk/articles/summerexcursion1905/southscarle.htm] [accessed 16 June 2009], noted: "The font has a base and bowl of the 13th century, but its cluster of eight columns has been replaced by a thick shaft." Pevsner & Williamson (1979) write: "The shaft of the font with eight shafts seems E[arly] E[nglish] […] but not much of it is left." The Historic Churches Preservation Trust notes: "bowl and base of font is [sic] 13th century". [source: 'Recent Grants' issue of the Grants Cttee. Meeting of 13 September 2005, [www.historicchurches.org.uk].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

  • Hill, A. Du Boulay, "Second excursion: South Scarle", 9 (1905), Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 1905
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979, p. 317