Mablethorpe

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 12704MAB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Church,_Mablethorpe
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 11 km NNE of Alford
Font Notes:
Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. Panelled stem, bowl of the pattern-book type. Six blank windows, Perp[endicular] as well as Dec[ortated], with two blank tracery motifs in addition." [NB: there may have been a medieval font in nearby Mablethorpe St. Peter's but that church was, according to Pevsner & al (ibid.) "swallowed by the sea in the early 1540s"].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989, p. 548