East Kirkby / Cherchebi
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B01: head
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/others/image_not_available.jpg)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/bsi-testing-site/others/image_not_available.jpg)
B02: design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
B03: design element - motifs - panel - cusped
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - head?
![Source caption: "Font detail. If indeed this is the green man, it can be seen on the south facing side of the font." [NB: in a cusped frame; quite likely part of the 19thC restoration of the font]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1190714010_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Font detail. If indeed this is the green man, it can be seen on the south facing side of the font." [NB: in a cusped frame; quite likely part of the 19thC restoration of the font]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 June 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/431358] [accessed 14 July 2019]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 June 2015 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4526541] [accessed 14 July 2019]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior of St Nicholas, East Kirkby. Looking from the nave, through the 15th-century screen, to the chancel."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 May 2007 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/431122] [accessed 14 July 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover in context - south side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 July 2004 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/431114] [accessed 14 July 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 12604KIR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Church Ln, East Kirkby, Spilsby PE23 4BZ, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the A155, 11 km SE of Horncastle
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Bolingbroke
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of the centre aisle
Century and Period: 15th century [re-cut], Perpendicular [altered?]
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for [East] Kirkby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF3362/east-kirkby/] [accessed 14 July 2019] and it mentions two churches in it. A 'note' by G. Maughan in the Lincolnshire Notes and Queries, vol. 6 (Horncastle, 1898: 49-51) has: "Antiquarians have much admired [...] its finely carved octagonal font". Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) note: "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], of white stone and re-cut. Leaves and heads in odd cusped fields (cf. the chimneypieces at Tattershall Castle)." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF3327863042] notes: "Parish church. C13, C14, C16, extensively restored C19 and 1904- 6. [...] Heavily restored font the pedestal and bowl decorated with cusped tracery and further decoration to bowl of carved heads and foliate."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.14771, -0.009
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 8′ 51.76″ N, 0° 0′ 32.4″ W
UTM: 30U 700016 5892881
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
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989