Winthorpe

Results: 3 records

B01: design element - patterns - tracery

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

LB01: design element - motifs - panel

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

LB02: symbol - shield

Scene Description: on the lower base [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 12841WIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 18 km NW of Spilsby
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
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