Cowbit / Cowbitt

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Results: 5 records

design element - motifs - trefoil

Scene Description: a stylised fleuron?

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Image Source: digital photograph taken in September 2017, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 23 October, 2018]

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design element - patterns - tracery - window tracery

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Image Source: digital photograph taken in September 2017, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 23 October, 2018]

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view of church exterior - northwest end

Scene Description: Source caption: "Parish church, Cowbit, Lincs, dedicated to St Mary and consecrated in 1486."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rodney Burton, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 March 2006 by Rodney Burton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/132943] [accessed 23 October 2018]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2007 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/593702] [accessed 23 October 2018]

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph taken in September 2017, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 23 October, 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 21848COW
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Barrier Bank, Cowbit PE12 6AL, UK -- Tel.: 01733 211763
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B1357, W of the A16
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Date: ca. 1380?
Century and Period: 14th century (late?), Decorated
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ken Redmore, Website Editor, of the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, for the photograph of this font
Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-1872) reported "an octagonal panelled font" in this church. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF2661017964] notes: "Parish church. c.1380, tower built and nave extended 1480-86, restored 1882 [...] Unusual tall octagonal font with splayed bowl and traceried stem."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.74545, -0.1358
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 44′ 43.62″ N, 0° 8′ 8.88″ W
UTM: 30U 693325 5847802

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: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern