Toynton St. Peter No. 1 / Toantun / Toantune / Toynton Saint Peter

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: on the sides of the stem

Image Source: digital image by Paul Gooch in [www.gillottfamilyhistory.com]

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design element - motifs - tracery

Scene Description: on some of the sides of the basin

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symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil

Scene Description: on some of the sides of the basin

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2011 by Richard Hoare [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2308243] [accessed 14 April 2017]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2011 by Richard Hoare [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2308241] [accessed 14 April 2017]

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view of font and cover in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12197TOY

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Church Lane, Toynton, Lincolnshire, PE23 5AP

Country Name: England

Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off the A158, 3-4 km SE of Spilsby, to the W of Skegness

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln

Historical Region: Hundred of Bolingbroke

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Paul Gooch, of www.gillottfamilyhistory.com, for the photograph of this font.

Church Notes: present church probably 14thC; re-built late-19thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for Toynton [variant spelling] in the Domesday Survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/toynton-all-saints-and-st-peter/] [accessed 14 April 2017], two of which report a church in each. Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) write: "Font. Octagonal, with square leaf motifs against the stem and four shields and four simple arches against the bowl." The Historic England site [Listing NGR: TF4040163442] notes: "Fine C14 octagonal font, with traceried side panels, the stem is encriched with fleurons." The baptismal font, in the Perpendicular (?) style; consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with shields and tracery patterns; panelled octagonal stem with foliage decoration; plain octagonal lower base. Plain flat wooden cover with tall Latin cross finial. The basin appears to be cracked horizontally through its middle. A recent [2005] photograph of this font by Paul Gooch, can be found in the Gillott Family History web site [www.gillottfamilyhistory.com] [accessed 18 September 2006]. [cf. Index entry for Toynton No. 2 for a square basin found in this church, to the west of the tower, now [i.e., ca. 1989] serving as base for a cross].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.149242, 0.097936

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 8′ 57.27″ N, 0° 5′ 52.57″ E

UTM: 31U 305937 589280

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989