Butterwick nr. Boston / Butruic
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "St.Andrew's font. 13th century base and clustered shafts supporting a 19th century octagonal bowl".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 28 May 2009 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1550138] [accessed 15 October 2018]
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view of church exterior in context - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alex MgGregor, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 February 2015 by Alex McGregor [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4358644] [accessed 15 October 2018]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St.Andrew's church. Early English, Tudor and Victorian, but the defining external feature is the Georgian brick tower".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 May 2009 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1544735] [accessed 15 October 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "St.Andrew's nave. Looking east with Early English arcades"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 May 2009 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1544757] [accessed 15 October 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
![Source caption: "St.Andrew's nave. 13th century arcades and 19th century tower arch" -- the baptismal font is partially visible in the south [left] aisle, behind a pillar](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1181015015_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "St.Andrew's nave. 13th century arcades and 19th century tower arch" -- the baptismal font is partially visible in the south [left] aisle, behind a pillar
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 May 2009 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1550152] [accessed 15 October 2018]
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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases - 8
Scene Description: clustered around a broad central pillar; the basin and cover are Victorian
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 28 May 2009 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1550138] [accessed 15 October 2018]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12560BUT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, just W of the S doorway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: Messingham Road, East Butterwick, Scunthorpe DN17 3AJ , UK -- Tel.: 01 724 647789
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A52, 1.5 km NNE of Bennington, 6 km E of Boston
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Wolmersty
Additional Comments: altered font (the present font: only the base is original; basin added 19thC) -- disappeared font(s)? (the one(s) from the two Domesday-time churches here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Butterwick [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF3845/butterwick/] [accessed 15 October 2018]; it reports two priests and two churches in it. Allen (1833) writes: "The font has an appearance of great antiquity." Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. E[arly] E[nglish] base of a central core and eight shafts." The entry for this church in Historic Churches [Listing NGR: TF3876644927] notes: "Parish church. C13, C14, C15, tower 1714, restoration 1770 and 1879. [...] Font has C13 clustered columned base and C19 battered octagonal bowl with contemporary lid." The Butterwick Parish Council web site [http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Butterwick/section.asp?catId=14853] [accessed 7 November 2010] notes: "The Font on the left as you enter the church is early English and was intended to remind us of the flood as symbolically it stands on eight pillars. At one time the Font lost its cover, but this is now replaced and the Font has recently been restored"
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 302993 5874469
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.98353, 0.0652
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 59′ 0.71″ N, 0° 3′ 54.72″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern / 19th century
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Allen, Thomas, The History of the County of Lincoln, from the earliest period to the present time [...], London & Lincoln: John Saunders, Junior, 1833-, vol. 1: 268
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989, p. 203