Sedgebrook / Sechebroc / Sedgbrook
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view of font and cover - northeast side
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 April 2012 by J. Hannan-Briggs [ww.geograph.org.uk/photo/2904820] [accessed 13 May 2019]
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design element - motifs - scallop - 8
Scene Description: with grooved arcs
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view of church exterior - north porch
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St Lawrence, Sedgebrook. The north porch, mid 15th century, with a holy water stoup surviving to the right of the doorway."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alan Murray-Rust, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 February 2017 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5280089] [accessed 13 May 2019]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 April 2012 by J. Hannan-Briggs [ww.geograph.org.uk/photo/2903010] [accessed 13 May 2019]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 May 2014 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4000682] [accessed 13 May 2019]
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view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 April 2012 by J. Hannan-Briggs [ww.geograph.org.uk/photo/2903045] [accessed 13 May 2019]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 April 2012 by J. Hannan-Briggs [ww.geograph.org.uk/photo/2904820] [accessed 13 May 2019]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11492SED
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?), Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Lawrence
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Address: Church Ln, Sedgebrook, Lincoln NG32 2EU, UK -- Tel.: 01949 842231
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A52, 7-8 km NW of Grantham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Winnibriggs
Additional Comments: damaged font / repaired font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Sedgebrook [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK8537/sedgebrook/] [accessed 13 May 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Gough (1792) reports an early font "on a round shaft." Described in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Octagonal, Norman, with heavily scalloped underside, eight scallops together." Noted and illustrated in the CRSBI (2019) as an octagonal mounted baptismal font of the Romanesque period, probably dating from the second half of the 12th century. The CRSBI reports damage and repairs to the font and also missing pieces "near the top of the lip".
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 652888 5867225
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.93287, -0.7252
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 55′ 58.33″ N, 0° 43′ 30.72″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Rim Thickness: 6 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 64 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 76 cm*
Basin Total Height: 51 cm*
Height of Base: 45 cm [calculated]
Font Height (less Plinth): 96 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2019)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat, round and plain, with knob handle
REFERENCES
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- 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. 186-187
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989, p. 639