Belchford / Beltesford

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Image copyright © Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 2018

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Results: 9 records

design element - motifs - panel - quadrangular - 8

not all of them are fully blank; were there originally more motifs and symbols that may have been later removed [cf. the font at Barg Enderby, for instance]
Scene Description: not all of them are fully blank; were there originally more motifs and symbols that may have been later removed [cf. the font at Barg Enderby, for instance]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2012 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3098481] [accessed 1 October 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - 4

at the bottom of the stem, on only four of the sides
Scene Description: at the bottom of the stem, on only four of the sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2012 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3098481] [accessed 1 October 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

design element - motifs - tree

three of them seen here on the right panel -- notice also the repair job on the right corner of the basin
Scene Description: three of them seen here on the right panel -- notice also the repair job on the right corner of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2012 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3098481] [accessed 1 October 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

design element - patterns - tracery - window tracery - trefoiled

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2012 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3098481] [accessed 1 October 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior - southwest view

Source caption: "A church possibly existed here before 1153, and during restoration in 1885 traces of a larger church were found. [...] The present church was built in 1791 with a west tower, this was reduced in 1909 to a lean-to porch with a small bellcote over. A vestry was built in 1860 when the chancel was mostly rebuilt."
Scene Description: Source caption: "A church possibly existed here before 1153, and during restoration in 1885 traces of a larger church were found. [...] The present church was built in 1791 with a west tower, this was reduced in 1909 to a lean-to porch with a small bellcote over. A vestry was built in 1860 when the chancel was mostly rebuilt."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2012 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3098467] [accessed 1 October 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior - west view

Source caption: "St. Peter and St. Paul, Belchford. The west porch is all that remains of the west tower of 1781."
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Peter and St. Paul, Belchford. The west porch is all that remains of the west tower of 1781."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jonathan Thacker, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 March 2015 by Jonathan Thacker [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4392246] [accessed 1 October 2018]
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view of church interior - looking east

the chancel was re-built in the mid-19th century
Scene Description: the chancel was re-built in the mid-19th century
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2012 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3098471] [accessed 1 October 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2012 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3098481] [accessed 1 October 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of font and cover

all the visible panels of the basin here have the tree-trio ornament; were other decorations chiselled off?
Scene Description: all the visible panels of the basin here have the tree-trio ornament; were other decorations chiselled off?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Dean Bird, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 1 October 2018]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 12535BEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Location: Main Rd, Belchfor, Horncastle LN9 6LG, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A153, 7 km NE of Horncastle
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Gartree
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century / 18th century?, Perpendicular
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ken Redmore, Website Editor, and Dean Bird, of the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, for the photograph of this font
Church Notes: original church here probably mid-12thC; present church is late-18thC with later modification
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Belchford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF2975/belchford/] [accessed 1 October 2018] but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) note: "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], panelled stem." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF2940775411] reports a "C15 octagonal font with panel tracery on bowl and pedestal" in it. [NB: the little trees at the bottom of some (?) of the basin panels on this font resemble those on the font at Bag Enderby].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.2594, -0.061
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 15′ 33.84″ N, 0° 3′ 39.6″ W
UTM: 30U 696029 5905158

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; modern

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989