Well nr. Alford

INFORMATION

FontID: 12820WEL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Location: Well, Lincolnshire LN13 0ES
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 3 km SSW of Alford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1733?
Century and Period: 18th century, Georgian? / Classic?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: wooden font
Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "The font is a wooden baluster"; this same source points out that "The furnishings are so like those at Langton-by-Spilsby that they may be by the same joiner" [NB: the church was built in 1733, and there is no record of an earlier church here; this wooden font noted here 'ex-Index' as an example of the use of wood for the construction of fonts in later periods] [NB: the font at Langton-by-S., however, is made of stone and of the 15th century -- cf. Index entry]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 310833 5902999

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: wood

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989