Stamford No. 2

Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Standing permission
Results: 16 records
design element - architectural - arch or window - cinquefoiled - 8
design element - architectural - buttress - 8
information
symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - cusped quatrefoil
symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - cusped quatrefoil
symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - cusped quatrefoil
symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - cusped quatrefoil
symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - cusped quatrefoil
symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - cusped quatrefoil
symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - cusped quatrefoil
symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - cusped quatrefoil
view of church exterior - southwest view
view of church exterior in context - south view
view of church interior - looking east
view of church interior - looking west
INFORMATION
FontID: 11473STA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: All Saints' Pl, Stamford PE9 2AG, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the A606, in the centre of Stamford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the centre aisle
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice Tostevin for her photographs of this font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Gough (1792) writes: "The shaft at All Saints, Stamford, is octagon, and has in it a plinth to raise the bason. The font has eight shields in quatrefoils." Noted in Paley (1844) as baptismal font of the Perpendicular period made of Purbeck marble. Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble [polygonal II type]; "bowl with circles cusped into quatrefoils and the spandrels also cusped on the cardinal faces and with four diagonally set cusped ovals on the ordinal faces; there are shields in the centres of all faces; the bowl stands on a buttressed plinth with cusped, traceried panels on each face." Described in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Perp[endicular], octagonal, with shields in cusped panels." The shields are blank. The wooden cover is flat and round, with metal decoration and ring handle. The entry for this church in Historic England [Legacy System number: 193446] notes: "The probably C12 NE angle of the nave is the earliest surviving fabric, and the irregular plan suggests the church developed around an older structure. [...] C15 Purbeck marble font, octagonal with a buttressed stem and carved, panelled bowl.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.652222,
-0.481111
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 39′ 8″ N,
0° 28′ 52″ W
UTM: 30U 670384 5836562
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone [Purbeck marble]
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; r["References"]
Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975
Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989