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design element - patterns - ribbed - concave - with inserts

the re-cut basin showing the 17thC (?) ribbed pattern
Scene Description: the re-cut basin showing the 17thC (?) ribbed pattern
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5154494] [accessed 28 January 2019]
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design element - patterns - torsade

on the outer shafts of the base -- the bottom corners of the basin above show the re-cutting of the 17thC
Scene Description: on the outer shafts of the base -- the bottom corners of the basin above show the re-cutting of the 17thC
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 19 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5154499] [accessed 28 January 2019]
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view of church exterior - east view

Source caption: "St Mary's church, Waplode. The church is currently entered by the south porch, which was added to the church in Tudor times, when the church was widened to incorporate both south and north nave aisles. However, inside the door has been dated from the 13th century. The changes are more evident when the exterior walls are compared with that of the original architecture of the Norman period in the church. The precision of the Norman builders is lacking in both the construction and alignment of the south and north walls. There is little doubt there was a Saxon church at the time of the Domesday survey (1086) The Abbey of Croyland acted as the Mother Church for many centuries within the fenland area. It is known that the bell tower was begun around the same time as the extension of the west nave, together with the pointed-arched west and south doorways, but was not completed until the beginning of the thirteenth century. Anecdotal evidence suggests that there were plans to incorporate twin towers on either side of the chancel, much in the style of the building at Southwell and Westminster Abbeys. Although the proportions of Whaplode St Mary’s would not have challenged either of these majestic buildings, they were nevertheless intended to represent a very significantly important establishment within the fens. The original construction is thought to have been separate from the church."
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's church, Waplode. The church is currently entered by the south porch, which was added to the church in Tudor times, when the church was widened to incorporate both south and north nave aisles. However, inside the door has been dated from the 13th century. The changes are more evident when the exterior walls are compared with that of the original architecture of the Norman period in the church. The precision of the Norman builders is lacking in both the construction and alignment of the south and north walls. There is little doubt there was a Saxon church at the time of the Domesday survey (1086) The Abbey of Croyland acted as the Mother Church for many centuries within the fenland area. It is known that the bell tower was begun around the same time as the extension of the west nave, together with the pointed-arched west and south doorways, but was not completed until the beginning of the thirteenth century. Anecdotal evidence suggests that there were plans to incorporate twin towers on either side of the chancel, much in the style of the building at Southwell and Westminster Abbeys. Although the proportions of Whaplode St Mary’s would not have challenged either of these majestic buildings, they were nevertheless intended to represent a very significantly important establishment within the fens. The original construction is thought to have been separate from the church."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 March 2012 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2852663] [accessed 28 January 2019]
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view of church exterior - north view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5154490] [accessed 28 January 2019]
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view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 19 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5154580] [accessed 28 January 2019]
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view of church exterior - tower - west side

Source caption: "Whaplode, St. Mary's Church: The three architectural period tower: 1) Bottom stage: Transitional with blind arcading. 2) Stages 3 and 4: Early English. 3) Top stage: Decorated."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Whaplode, St. Mary's Church: The three architectural period tower: 1) Bottom stage: Transitional with blind arcading. 2) Stages 3 and 4: Early English. 3) Top stage: Decorated."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5154583] [accessed 28 January 2019]
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view of church interior

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © unknown, [ca. 1960?]
Image Source: digital image of a photograph from the 1960s (?) found by Paul Fenwick; photographer unknown [http://www.wparkinson.com/Churches/Fenwick/Album9/whaplode2.jpg] [accessed 8 November 2010]
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view of church interior - chancel arch - detail

Source caption: "Whaplode, St. Mary's Church: Norman chancel arch showing damage probably caused by the installation of a rood loft and screen".
Scene Description: Source caption: "Whaplode, St. Mary's Church: Norman chancel arch showing damage probably caused by the installation of a rood loft and screen".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5154575] [accessed 28 January 2019]
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view of church interior - looking east

Source caption: "Whaplode, St. Mary's Church: The nave with massive Norman arcades".
Scene Description: Source caption: "Whaplode, St. Mary's Church: The nave with massive Norman arcades".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5154490] [accessed 28 January 2019]
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view of church interior - looking west

Source caption: "North Arcade. Looking west along the wonderful 7-bay late 12th century north arcade in St.Mary's church".
Scene Description: Source caption: "North Arcade. Looking west along the wonderful 7-bay late 12th century north arcade in St.Mary's church".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 March 2008 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/763592] [accessed 28 January 2019]
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view of church interior - nave - arcade - capital

Source caption: "Whaplode, St. Mary's Church: Late c12th stiff leaf foliate capital".
Scene Description: Source caption: "Whaplode, St. Mary's Church: Late c12th stiff leaf foliate capital".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5154545] [accessed 28 January 2019]
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view of church interior - nave - arcade - capital

Source caption: "Whaplode, St. Mary's Church: Norman cushion capital".
Scene Description: Source caption: "Whaplode, St. Mary's Church: Norman cushion capital".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5154593] [accessed 28 January 2019]
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view of font

Source caption: "Whaplode, St. Mary's Church: The font, a Jacobean copy of a Norman original" -- it is a re-cut font.
Scene Description: Source caption: "Whaplode, St. Mary's Church: The font, a Jacobean copy of a Norman original" -- it is a re-cut font.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5154499] [accessed 28 January 2019]
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view of font and cover in context - northwest side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4442016] [accessed 28 January 2019]
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view of font and cover in context - southwest side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4388104] [accessed 28 January 2019]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 11463WHA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Kirk Gate, Whaplode, Spalding PE12 6TA, UK -- Tel.: +44 1406 373142
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the A151, 3 km WSW of Holbech / Holbeach, 11 km E of Spalding
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Elloe
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?) [re-cut in the 17th century], Medieval [altered]
Cognate Fonts: the font at Winfarthing (Norfolk)
Church Notes: church consecrated 1125
Font Notes:
There are five entries for Whaplode [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF3224/whaplode/] [accessed 27 January 2019] none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Allen (1833) writes: "The church, dedicated to St. Mary, was built [...] in the year 1268, and it is the most ancient church in this neighbourhood. It is of Norman architecture and having been frequently enlarged is become one of the largest in this flourishing and populous district Here is a large stone font lined with lead." Noted in Paley (1844) as a Norman font with "the upper part of the bowl being octagonal, the lower square", and gives Winfarthing (Norfolk) as a font of the same design and period. Dated much later in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Octagonal. Tall bowl with fluted panels, perhaps C17." The British Listed Buildings database [http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-198096-church-of-st-mary-whaplode] [accessed 8 November 2010] has: "Mid C12 font partially re-cut in C17. 3 rectangular steps with extra step for priest to west, lead up to font supported on 4 free standing columns with spiral decoration and central larger plain shaft. Octagonal bowl re-cut with flutings."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.7978, -0.038
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 47′ 52.08″ N, 0° 2′ 16.8″ W
UTM: 30U 699684 5853891

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined

REFERENCES

Allen, Thomas, The History of the County of Lincoln, from the earliest period to the present time [...], London & Lincoln: John Saunders, Junior, 1833-
Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989