Wrangle / Weranghe / Wrange / Wranghill
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B01: design element - motifs - panel
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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UB01: design element - patterns - fluted
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
INFORMATION
FontID: 11520WRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Nicholas of Myra
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located about 15 km NE of Boston
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes:
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Described in Gough (1792): "octagon, with plain square compartments on a fluted shaft, and the three steps with the raised one at the West side as at East Dereham." [NB: Gough has 'Wrange'].. Allen (1833) quotes Gough practically verbatim, and adds: "This font is said to have been erected in 1468 and to have cost £12 13s. 9d.", which he footnotes as information from Archaeologia (vol. X: 198).
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Allen, Thomas, The History of the County of Lincoln, from the earliest period to the present time [...], London & Lincoln: John Saunders, Junior, 1833-
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