Castle Bytham / Bintham / Bitham / West Bytham

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Font image
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 July 2014 by Peter Wood [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4100969] [accessed 23 December 2018]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 12566CAS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1660?
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(mid?), Restoration
Cognate Fonts: Restoration and Carline fonts of this type are common in England
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James
Church Address: Church Ln, Castle Bytham, Grantham NG33 4SA, UK
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B1176, E of the A1, 2 km E of Little Bytham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Beltisloe
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the C12(?) church here)
Font Notes:
No individual entry for Castle Bythem found in the Domesday survey [NB: there are four entries for Little Bytham in the survey, one of which reports a church in it]. Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) note: "Font. Octagonal. Patterns in flat raised bands, a star, IHS, etc. Is it 1660s?" The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK9885818348] notes: "Parish church. Late C12, C13, C14, C15, C17, 1774, C19, c.1900. [...] Early C17 octagonal font with panelled sides containing abstract decoration, a stepped cross and the Sacred Monogram." The same entry reports a "C10 Saxon cross shaft with cable moulded angles, floral decoration to the sides and interlace to the panels" here.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 666239 5847718
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.7537, -0.5367
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 45′ 13.32″ N, 0° 32′ 12.12″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: initials
Inscription Location: on one of the basin panels
Inscription Text: "IHS"
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989, p. 215