Mablethorpe
Results: 3 records
B01: design element - architectural - window - 6
![six of the eight sides of the basin [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/others/image_not_available.jpg)
Scene Description: six of the eight sides of the basin [cf. Font notes]
![six of the eight sides of the basin [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/bsi-testing-site/others/image_not_available.jpg)
B02: design element - motifs - tracery
Scene Description: two of the eight sides of the basin [cf. Font notes]
LB01: design element - motifs - panel
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
INFORMATION
FontID: 12704MAB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 11 km NNE of Alford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes:
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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