Mareham-le-Fen / Marun
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Results: 7 records
view of font and cover
Scene Description: a repair to the upper rim seen here on the left; remains of damage from an earlier cover anchoring point
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Image Source: digital photograph taken April 2016, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 24 December 2018]
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human figure - head - grotesque of fantastic? - 8
Scene Description: some more grotesque than others
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Image Source: digital photograph taken April 2016, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 24 December 2018]
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design element - motifs - foliage - crocketed - trefoiled leaves
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken April 2016, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 24 December 2018]
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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 16
Scene Description: between the two mouldings
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Image Source: digital photograph taken April 2016, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 24 December 2018]
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2
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Image Source: digital photograph taken April 2016, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 24 December 2018]
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken April 2016, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 24 December 2018]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 April 2013 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3428697] [accessed 24 December 2018]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12708MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Helen
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Helena
Church Address: Horncastle Rd, Mareham le Fen, Boston PE22 7QR, UK
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A155, W of the B1183, 9-10 km SE of Horncastle
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Horncastle
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Mareham [-le-Fen] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF2761/mareham-le-fen/] [accessed 24 December 2018]; it reports a priest and a church in it. Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) write: "Font. Octagonal, Dec[orated]. Simple panels with low, flat ogee arches, big finials, and heads at the top corners." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF2783361259] notes: "Parish church. Late C13, early C14, late C14, C15, C16, 1879 partial rebuilding of exterior, 1974 vestry extension [...] built from materials taken from the demolished Church of St. Margaret, Old Woodhall. [...] Fittings are all C19 apart from the octagonal C14 font with trefoils and human heads to the sides, moulded fleurons to rim."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ken Redmore, Website Editor, Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, for the photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 694663 5891133
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.134, -0.09
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 8′ 2.4″ N, 0° 5′ 24″ W
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; appears to have a donation plaque; modern
REFERENCES
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989, p. 551