Winthorpe

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 12841WIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17526416
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 18 km NW of Spilsby
Font Notes:
Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "Font. Octagonal, Dec[orated], with a base decorated with shields, a panelled stem, and on the bowl pattern-book forms of window tracery." The wooden font cover is modern and appears in Edmund Czajkowski & Son Ltd.'s catalogue [http://www.czajkowski-furniture.co.uk/new-church-furniture.htm] [accessed 21 July 2009]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, with graded moulding; carved boss/handle [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989, p. 806