Castle Bytham / Bintham / Bitham / West Bytham
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Christ - monogram - IHS
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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design element - patterns
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
symbol - star
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Wood, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 July 2014 by Peter Wood [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4100969] [accessed 23 December 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 12566CAS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Church Location: Church Ln, Castle Bytham, Grantham NG33 4SA, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
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
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1660?
Century and Period: 17th century(mid?), Restoration
Cognate Fonts: Restoration and Carline fonts of this type are common in England
Font Notes:
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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
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.7537, -0.5367
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 45′ 13.32″ N, 0° 32′ 12.12″ W
UTM: 30U 666239 5847718
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: initials
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on one of the basin panels
Inscription Text: "IHS"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989