South Reston

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Scene Description: Notice the top of the basin with the sundial surface

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Richard Croft taken 18 January 2006

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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph by Richard Croft taken 18 January 2006

Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 2 March 2007)

INFORMATION

FontID: 12765RES
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Edith
Church Patron Saints: St. Edith
Church Location: [cf. GeoDirections]
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: South Reston is located off the A157, 8 km SE of Louth. The churchyard site -the church no loger exists, is near the town.
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Lincoln]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 1864?
Century and Period: 19th century, Victorian
Workshop/Group/Artisan: by James Fowler
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Richard Croft for the photograph of this font.
No individual entry found for South Reston in the Domesday survey. Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) report: "St Edith, of 1864-5 by James Fowler, was demolished in 1983. The font has been converted into a sundial and placed in the churchyard -- late C20 conservation? Octagonal, Perp[endicular], eight heads supporting the bowl, eight different large leaves filling the panels of the bowl." The Geograph site [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/108019] [accessed 2 March 2007] shows an image of the font, standing on its plinth, in the middle of the churchyard -- photograph taken 18 January 2006 by Richard Croft]. [NB: although out of the scope of this Index on account of its Victorian date, this font is included here to show that the practice of re-cycling of fonts into other objects continues in present times].

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 306931 5912864

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989