Stickford / Stichefforde / Stichesforde
Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2009
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design element - motifs - floral - 16
Scene Description: around the sides and corners of the upper basin side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 March 2009 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1225213] [accessed 28 July 2019]
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design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 March 2009 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1225213] [accessed 28 July 2019]
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 March 2009 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1225213] [accessed 28 July 2019]
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symbol - shield - in a quatrefoil
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 March 2009 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1225213] [accessed 28 July 2019]
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St.Helen's church. Recently restored 13th and 15th century church"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 March 2009 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1225165] [accessed 28 July 2019]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "Looking west with 13th century arcades and 15th century tower arch" -- the font and cover are partially visible in the south aisle, opposite the south entranceway
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 March 2009 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1225217] [accessed 28 July 2019]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "15th century octagonal font with quatrefoil panels in St.Helen's church"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 March 2009 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1225213] [accessed 28 July 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 12779STI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Helen
Church Patron Saints: St. Helena
Church Location: Church Rd, Stickford, Boston, Boston 8EP, UK -- Tel.: +44 205 481183
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the A16 [aka Main Rd], 9-10 km SW of Spilsby
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Bolingbroke
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle, opposite the S doorway
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Stickford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF3560/stickford/] [accessed 28 July 2019]; it reports a church in it. Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) note: "Font. Octagonal, with quatrefoils whose centres are shields or leaves." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF3519260038] notes: "Parish church. C13, C14, C15, restorations 1830, 1853 by Fowler, 1863 and 1881. [...] C14 octagonal font, the bowl decorated with quatrefoil panels." A simple wooden cover of four stylised scroll ribs meeting at the finial.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 7′ 14″ N, 0° 1′ 05″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989