Quarrington
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12741QUA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Botolph
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17549292
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Botulph [aka St. Botolph, Botolph of Thorney, Botulf]
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 2 km SSW of Sleaford
Font Notes:
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Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 notes that the church of St. Botolph is "partly in the early and partly in the decorated English style, and contains a font of later date curiously shaped". Described in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. Octagonal, the bowl with taperinf sides. Simple motifs. Probably Perp[endicular]."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=51227] [accessed 23 February 2007]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989, p. 605