Wainfleet All Saints / Wemflet / Wenflet
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design element - motifs - fleuron
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken July 2014, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 20 January 2019]
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design element - patterns - tracery
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken July 2014, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 20 January 2019]
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symbol - Christ - the instruments of the Passion - cross
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken July 2014, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 20 January 2019]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © JThomas, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 March 2014 by JThomas [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3899149] [accessed 20 January 2019]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Wainfleet All Saints, church font. The 15th century font in All Saints' church is decorated with traceried panels and emblems of the Passion. Presumably it came from the town's earlier medieval church."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken July 2014, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 20 January 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 12806WAI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Wainfleet All Saints, Skegness PE24 4BW, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the B1195, W of the A52, 8 km SW of Skegness, about 50 km ESE of Lincoln
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Candleshoe
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: the font at nearby Wainfleet St. Mary, among others
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ken Redmore, Website Editor, the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, for the photograph of this font
Church Notes: present Wainfleet All Saints Church was re-built in 1820-1821 from two earlier churches, one medieval (12thC?) dedicated to All Saints, another to St Thomas (13thC?)
Font Notes:
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There are seven entries for Wainfleet [All Saints and St Mary] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/wainfleet-all-saints-and-st-mary/] [accessed 20 January 2019] none of which mentions cleric or church in it. The entry for this church in Edmund Oldfield's A topographical and historical account of Wainfleet and the Wapentake of Candleshoe, in the County of Lincoln (London: Longman, [etc.], 1829: p. 44) notes: "The font, which belonged to the old church, and is apparently ancient, is octagonal. In every alternate compartment of the bowl, is a shield emblazoned with emblematic representations of the Saviour's passion, as the cross, the soldier's spear, the crown of thorns, nails, scourges, &c." Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) note: "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], fleurons on the stem, tracery and instruments of the Passion on the bowl." [NB: the carving on the font looks suspiciously fresh and sharp now [2014]; has it been re-tooled?]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 315077 5887840
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 with carved sides and Latin-cross finial; modern
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989