Westborough / Westburg

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches - columns with capitals and bases

Scene Description: although the carving is rather crude, the artist has aimed as creating the effect that the inner intersecting arcade continues from arch to arch of the outer arcade

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2008 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/929975] [accessed 19 May 2019]

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - beaded-tape - columns with capitals and bases - 8

Scene Description: the outer arcade of the font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2008 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/929975] [accessed 19 May 2019]

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design element - motifs - leaf

Scene Description: highly stylised leaves inside the arch-heads of the outer arcade

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2008 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/929975] [accessed 19 May 2019]

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design element - motifs - leaf - 8

Scene Description: large leaves in the spandrels of the outer arcade; unfortunately several are missing and the gap have been cemented over

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2008 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/929975] [accessed 19 May 2019]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: a thick roll moulding forms part of the water-holding lower base

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2008 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/929975] [accessed 19 May 2019]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "The church dates back to the 11th century although only fragments of masonry survive. It is built in limestone ashlar, ironstone rubble, blue lias, some redbrick with lead, pantile and slate roofs. There is a west tower, a nave with north and south aisles, north and south porches, a north transept a chancel and north east vestry."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2013

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 January 2013 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3306647] [accessed 19 May 2019]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of All Saints, Westborough. Much of the chancel and nave date from the 11th to 13th century."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tim Heaton, 2014

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 8 May 2014 by Tim Heaton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3983188] [accessed 19 May 2019]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Lofty 13th century arcades and clear glazed windows give All Saints' church a light and airy atmosphere".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2008 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/929914] [accessed 19 May 2019]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Inside All Saints' church looking west towards the partially blocked 15th century tower arch and two late medieval wall paintings of Time and Death".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2008 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/929940] [accessed 19 May 2019]

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view of font and cover in context - southeast side

Scene Description: Source caption: "Lovely late 12th century octagonal font with intersecting arches on each face and a strange sort of leaf-shaped motif in the tympanum". The damage to the font is evident; the octagonal plinth on which the font stands is modern.

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2008 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/929975] [accessed 19 May 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12824WES
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Church Ln, Westborough, Grantham NG23 5HJ , UK -- Tel.: 01400 281850
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located just W of a bend of the Witham river, 10 km SSE of Newark-on-Trent, 11 km NNW of Grantham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Loveden
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, towards the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
There is an entry for Westborough [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK8544/westborough/] [accessed 19 May 2019]; it mentions a priest and a church in it. Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989) note: "Font. Octagonal, Norman, each side an arch on angle-shafts. In each of these fields six long thin intersecting arches and, in the tympanum, two affronted flat, stylized leaves." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK8501644299] notes: "Parish church. C11, c.1190, late C13, C14, C15, C17, 1749-52 restored in 1811, C19, 1951. [...] C12 octagonal stone font with interlaced arches and beaded flat stylised leaves in spandrels." The CRSBI (2019) entry for this church reports "a Romanesque font in the nave [...] The font is located in the nave toward the W end and on axis with the N arcade. Font sits on a modern octagonal plinth. The base of the font itself is chamfered with a water holding base that rises upward in the form of a bell capital to become the font stem. Font is octagonal, of light, grey stone. Large crack runs completely around bowl. Eight bay arcade around font, each side consisting of a large arch. The columns on these arches have polygonal bases and capitals while the arches are decorated with nailhead. Inside each of these bays is an intersecting arcade of seven columns with plain bases and capitals carrying plain arches. Above the intersecting arcade are two large leaves that vary in type; from the E bay moving clockwise they are as follows: 1: two down-turned leaves. 2: two upright leaves. 3: similar to 2 but with smaller leaves (?) at top centre. 4: as 2. 5: uncarved. 6: two upright leaves with two volutes on each leaf. 7: two large, down-turned leaves with volutes. 8: two large, down-turned leaves, no volutes. In each of the spandrels at the top of the font is a downward pointing trefoil leaf. Cable mould on lip." The CRSBI (ibid.) dates the font and the church itself to the 12th century.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.98916, -0.7342
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 59′ 20.98″ N, 0° 44′ 3.12″ W
UTM: 30U 652086 5873466

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (inside rim): 53.5 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 72 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2019)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: Round, flat and plain; modern

REFERENCES

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2019-05-19 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989