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| Name: | Medieval Font Bowl, Church of All Saints, Moorby |
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| HER Number: | MLI40798 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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Summary
A 14th century font bowl, re-used within the 1866 rebuilding of the Church of All Saints, Moorby.
| Grid Reference: | TF 291 640 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF26SE |
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| Parish: | MOORBY, EAST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE |
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Full description
A 14th century, square chamfered font bowl had been re-used and set upon a new base within the Church of All Saints, Moorby (see PRN 46704). The bowl had carvings on each of its four sides:
Side 1: Madonna and child with the Sun and Moon.
Side 2: Six kneeling figures.
Side 3: Man sitting with book, and with scourge at his side.
Side 4: Dead body of donor of font with two guardian angels folding a sheet.
The faces on the panel carvings had been obscured, but two crowned and mitred heads below the bowl were still intact. It is unclear whether the font bowl had formed part of the original medieval church in this location, or had been brought to the site during the 1866 re-building. {1}{2}
<1> Nikolaus Pevsner and John Harris, 1964, Buildings of England: Lincolnshire (First Edition), p.318 (Bibliographic Reference). SLI860.
<2> Arthur Mee, 1952, The King's England: Lincolnshire, p.274 (Bibliographic Reference). SLI932.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1399 AD)
Associated Finds
- FONT (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1399 AD)
Sources and further reading
| <1> | Bibliographic Reference: Nikolaus Pevsner and John Harris. 1964. Buildings of England: Lincolnshire (First Edition). p.318. |
| <2> | Bibliographic Reference: Arthur Mee. 1952. The King's England: Lincolnshire. p.274. |
Related records
| MLI89146 | Related to: Former Church of All Saints, Moorby (Monument) |
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