Great Sturton / Stratone / Sturton Magna

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B01: design element - motifs - wave

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 13 June 2010 by Allan Barton [aka Vitrearum] [www.flickr.com/photos/vitrearum/4848800379/in/set-72157624503648863/]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2006 by Richard Croft [geograph.org.uk-187089.jpg]

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view of church interior - nave - northwest corner

Scene Description: with the font and cover visible at the left

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2010 by Allan Barton [aka Vitrearum] [www.flickr.com/photos/vitrearum/4848800379/in/set-72157624503648863/]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 13 June 2010 by Allan Barton [aka Vitrearum] [www.flickr.com/photos/vitrearum/4848800379/in/set-72157624503648863/]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 17435STU

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Church Ln, Great Sturton, Horncastle, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located 10 km N of Horncastle

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln

Historical Region: Hundred of Gartree

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end

Century and Period: 14th century [restored], Decorated [altered]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for [Great] Sturton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF2176/great-sturton/] [accessed 11 March 2019], one of which reports a church in it. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF2152976660] notes: "C14 octagonal font heavily restored in early C20 with flowing cusped decoration and tall octagonal base with cusped ogee heads." The font consists of an octagonal basin decorated with a wave all around, the spaces of the wave decorated with cusped motifs; above and below, a combination of mouldings; the underbowl is plain and slightly concave; raised on an octagonal pedestal base decorated with a moulding atop and arches or windows on the sides; splaying lower base. The wooden cover is octagonal, flat and plain. [NB: not quite certain how much of the present carving resembles the original -- the fabric of the church goes back to Norman times but we have no information of a font of that period in this church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.271578, -0.179524

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 16′ 17.68″ N, 0° 10′ 46.28″ W

UTM: 30U 688072 5906193

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: [cf. FontNotes]