Scotton

INFORMATION

FontID: 12756SCO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Genewys
Church Patron Saints: St. Genewys
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 14 km NE of Gainsborough
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Century and Period: Medieval
Font Notes:
Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. Circular. of Caen stone and marble, really terrible, yet said (by Kelly) to be by Street, who restored the chancel in 1866" [i.e., George Edmund Street (1824-1881) Victorian architect, disciple of G. G. Scott]. [NB: the church goes back to medieval times but we have no information of the original font of this church]

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989