Stamford No. 2
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view of font and cover
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symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - cusped quatrefoil
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of church exterior in context - south view
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view of church interior - looking west
![showing the font at the far [west] end of the centre aisle](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1190418013_compressed.png)
Scene Description: showing the font at the far [west] end of the centre aisle
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view of church interior - looking east
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design element - architectural - arch or window - cinquefoiled - 8
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design element - architectural - buttress - 8
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information
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Scene Description: map showing the distribution of Purbeck Marble fonts in Medieval England [source: Leach (1975)]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11473STA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the centre aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: All Saints' Pl, Stamford PE9 2AG, UK
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A606, in the centre of Stamford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC(?) church here)
Font Notes:
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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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice Tostevin for her photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 670384 5836562
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.652222, -0.481111
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 39′ 8″ N, 0° 28′ 52″ W
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; p. 193
- Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975, p. 80, [81]
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 23
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989, p. 689