Addlethorpe No. 1 / Arduluetorp / Hardetorp / Herdertorp / Herdetorp / Heretorp
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B01: design element - motifs - tracery
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul Gooch, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph by Paul Gooch 2005 [www.paulgoochimages.com], in [www.gillottfamilyhistory.com/Addlethorpe_Church_Lincolnnshire_Article.html]
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LB01: design element - motifs - tracery
Scene Description: on the stem
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul Gooch, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph by Paul Gooch 2005 [www.paulgoochimages.com], in [www.gillottfamilyhistory.com/Addlethorpe_Church_Lincolnnshire_Article.html]
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LB02: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: on the lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul Gooch, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph by Paul Gooch 2005 [www.paulgoochimages.com], in [www.gillottfamilyhistory.com/Addlethorpe_Church_Lincolnnshire_Article.html]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul Gooch, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph by Paul Gooch 2005 [www.paulgoochimages.com], in [www.gillottfamilyhistory.com/Addlethorpe_Church_Lincolnnshire_Article.html]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 12 January 2007)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12513ADD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas, Addlethorpe
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17526515
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: Old Church Rd, Skegness PE24 4TW, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 7425 374510
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A52, about 5 km N of Skegness
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Candleshoe [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: damaged font: the basin appears to have been put back together from the broken pieces
Font Notes:
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There are ten entries for his Addlethorpe [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF5468/addlethorpe/] [accessed 2 July 2025], one of which, in the tenancy of "Robert the bursar", reports two churches in it.
Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. Octagonal, the stem patterned, the bowl with rough tracery patterns." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF5509369098] notes: "The C15 octagonal font has panelled sides and base containing tracery and shields. C19 conical softwood cover [...] and in the north east angle an octagonal stoup with ogee head, above which is a cusped niche." [cf. Index entry for Addlethorpe No. 2 for another object claimed to be a baptismal font for the peasants also in this church]
Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. Octagonal, the stem patterned, the bowl with rough tracery patterns." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF5509369098] notes: "The C15 octagonal font has panelled sides and base containing tracery and shields. C19 conical softwood cover [...] and in the north east angle an octagonal stoup with ogee head, above which is a cusped niche." [cf. Index entry for Addlethorpe No. 2 for another object claimed to be a baptismal font for the peasants also in this church]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Paul Gooch, of www.paulgoochimages.com, for the photograph of this font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: pyramidal octagonal with floral finial
REFERENCES
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989, p. 93