Old Bolingbroke No. 1 / Bolingbrog / Bolingbroke

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view of font and cover - northwest side

Source caption: "Interior of the Church of St Peter & St Paul, Old Bolingbroke. A close-up of the font, which shows a lot of graffiti. There are two indentations on the far side. which may be the result of musket or rifle fire. Not for the first time this has been seen in a church."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior of the Church of St Peter & St Paul, Old Bolingbroke. A close-up of the font, which shows a lot of graffiti. There are two indentations on the far side. which may be the result of musket or rifle fire. Not for the first time this has been seen in a church."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2009 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1454356] [accessed 31 December 2018]
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view of font and cover - southeast side

Source caption: "Interior of the Church of St Peter & St Paul, Old Bolingbroke. The font basin is heavily marked and has what appear to be bullet marks on the panel facing the west wall."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior of the Church of St Peter & St Paul, Old Bolingbroke. The font basin is heavily marked and has what appear to be bullet marks on the panel facing the west wall."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2009 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1454387] [accessed 31 December 2018]
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view of font and cover - northwest side

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2009 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1454405] [accessed 31 December 2018]
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view of font and cover in context - southeast side

Source caption: "Interior of the Church of St Peter & St Paul, Old Bolingbroke [...] The font sits beneath the west window."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior of the Church of St Peter & St Paul, Old Bolingbroke [...] The font sits beneath the west window."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2009 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1454311] [accessed 31 December 2018]
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view of church exterior - southwest view

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David P Howard, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 March 2015 by David P Howard [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4379302] [accessed 31 December 2018]
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view of church exterior - northeast view

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 January 2010 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1728827] [accessed 31 December 2018]
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view of church interior - looking east

Source caption: "Interior of the Church of St Peter & St Paul, Old Bolingbroke. What you are looking at is the south isle of what was a much larger church. Through the arcade/pillars to the left was once the nave, which had a separate chancel. Now, this former south aisle is the main body of the church and the former nave is the north aisle. The chancel is usually divided from the nave by an archway, but not here. The photograph was taken from behind the font towards the 14th century east window."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior of the Church of St Peter & St Paul, Old Bolingbroke. What you are looking at is the south isle of what was a much larger church. Through the arcade/pillars to the left was once the nave, which had a separate chancel. Now, this former south aisle is the main body of the church and the former nave is the north aisle. The chancel is usually divided from the nave by an archway, but not here. The photograph was taken from behind the font towards the 14th century east window."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2009 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1454444] [accessed 31 December 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Source caption: "Interior of the Church of St Peter & St Paul, Old Bolingbroke. This view is looking towards the stained glass west window by Kempe & Tower. The two central figures are, as you might expect, St Peter and Saint Paul". -- the font is located at the far back, beneath the window
Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior of the Church of St Peter & St Paul, Old Bolingbroke. This view is looking towards the stained glass west window by Kempe & Tower. The two central figures are, as you might expect, St Peter and Saint Paul". -- the font is located at the far back, beneath the window
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2009 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1454966] [accessed 31 December 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of font cover - detail

Source caption: "Interior of the Church of St Peter & St Paul, Old Bolingbroke. The heavy oak lid of the baptismal font."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior of the Church of St Peter & St Paul, Old Bolingbroke. The heavy oak lid of the baptismal font."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2009 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1454429] [accessed 31 December 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

Font ID: 21933BOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Address: Main St, Old Bolingbroke, Bolingbroke, Spilsby, East Lindsey, Lincolnshire, PE23 4HH, UK
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B1195, 2 km SW of Mavis Enderby, 5 km W of Spilsby and the A16
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Bolingbroke
Additional Comments: altered font? (the present font, said to be 14thC, and therefore likely to be the original one here, has been drastically re-tooled, scraped, etc)
Font Notes:
There is an entry for [Old] Bolingbroke [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF3565/old-bolingbroke/] [accessed 31 December 2018]; it reports a church in it. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF3495165136] notes: "Parish church. c.1360, possibly for John of Gaunt. Partly destroyed in the Civil War, restored 1866 by James Fowler of Louth, and again in 1889. [...] C14 inner doorway with moulded pointed head, demi shafts with foliate capitals. To the east side a holy water stoup on octagonal pillar with cusped and crocketed canopy. [...] Fittings all C19 apart from the C14 font which is octagonal, with elaborate stem with clustered chamfered shafts with pyramidal stepped bases." The octagonal font cover, of wood with metal decorations and ring handle, appears modern, probably Victorian.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 300650 5894887
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.16596, 0.0177
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 9′ 57.46″ N, 0° 1′ 3.72″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern / Victoriab
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]