South Somercotes / South Somercoates
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 17 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5154601] [accessed 5 August 2019]
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view of font and cover in context - west side
Scene Description: Source caption: "A spacious 13th century early English nave and 15th century Decorated font"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2006
Image Source: digital photpgraph taken 4 April 2006 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/155839] [accessed 5 August 2019]
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symbol - shield - hanging shield - Christ - the instruments of the Passion - seamless robe, dice
Scene Description: seen here in the leftmost panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5154605] [accessed 5 August 2019]
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symbol - shield - hanging shield - Christ - the instruments of the Passion - ladder?
Scene Description: seen here in the left of the two centre panels
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5154605] [accessed 5 August 2019]
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symbol - shield - hanging shield - Christ - the instruments of the Passion - nails
Scene Description: seen here in the right of the two centre panels
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5154605] [accessed 5 August 2019]
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symbol - shield - hanging shield - Christ - the instruments of the Passion - scourge
Scene Description: seen here in the rightmost panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5154605] [accessed 5 August 2019]
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design element - motifs - floral - varied
Scene Description: round and square flowers all around in the scotia below the rim
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5154605] [accessed 5 August 2019]
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human figure - head
Scene Description: around the underbowl: some hooded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5154605] [accessed 5 August 2019]
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symbol - shield - hanging shield - Christ - the instruments of the Passion - lance
Scene Description: seen here in the rightmost panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 17 June 2012 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3002640] [accessed 5 August 2019]
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symbol - shield - hanging shield - Christ - the instruments of the Passion - cross - cross ragulé
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 17 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5154601] [accessed 5 August 2019]
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symbol - shield - hanging shield - Christ - the instruments of the Passion - crown of thorns
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 17 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5154601] [accessed 5 August 2019]
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symbol - shield - hanging shield - Christ - the instruments of the Passion - sponge
Scene Description: seen here in the rightmost panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 17 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5154601] [accessed 5 August 2019]
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view of church exterior in context - south view
![Sorce caption: "The Church of St Peter and part of its burial ground at South Somercotes [...] Whilst the church is no longer used for regular services it is still cared for by The Churches Conservation Trust."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1190805024_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Sorce caption: "The Church of St Peter and part of its burial ground at South Somercotes [...] Whilst the church is no longer used for regular services it is still cared for by The Churches Conservation Trust."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Wood, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 March 2019 by Peter Wood [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6085224] [accessed 5 August 2019]
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view of church exterior - east view
![Source caption: "Dating from about 1200 0nwards. The tall spire is 15th C. on a 14th C tower [...] Restored in 1866 & 1896. Now not used & redundant."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1190805023_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Dating from about 1200 0nwards. The tall spire is 15th C. on a 14th C tower [...] Restored in 1866 & 1896. Now not used & redundant."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2012 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3001046] [accessed 5 August 2019]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: with the font at the west end of the centre aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 September 2016 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5154611] [accessed 5 August 2019]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12423SOM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century / 15th century, Norman? / Perpendicular?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter [redundant]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, centre aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Town St, South Somercotes, Louth LN11 7BH, UK
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A1031, 13 km ENE of Louth
Font Notes:
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Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports "an octagonal font of Norman design" in North Somercoates [sic] St. Peter's. [NB: Lewis (ibid.) gives the dedication of North Somercoates [sic] as St. Peter and South Somercoates [sic] as St. Mary. The entry for South Somercoates notes "a curious font of octagonal shape", and Lewis normally uses the term curious for fonts of complex or busy ornamentation, in this case the one at North Somercotes St. Mary's -- it appears that the churches have been mixed up in Lewis']. Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) wrire: "Font. Big, octagonal, Perp[endicular]. Fleuron frieze, shield with the Instruments of the Passion, heads on the underside. The cover is Perp[endicular] too, quite simple, but with a finial." [cf. Index entry for North Somercotes for more details on the fonts at these churches]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 309297 5922997
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.4215, 0.13
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 25′ 17.4″ N, 0° 7′ 48″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=51286] [accessed 19 December 2006]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989, p. 668