The medieval font at the rear of the church.

Valerie Hinkins, c.1980

"Cylindrical Norman font on C19 moulded column and medieval octagonal base"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1241758 

DB 15 July 2018

"Late C15 octagonal font with panels containing heads, flowers and a shield on an octagonal support with deeply cut foliage in small panels"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062909 

DB 3 November 2018

The 12th century tub font has intersecting blank arcading on its sides.

May 2015

"Plain C14 octagonal font with double chamfered plinth to roll moulded octagonal stem"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1061829 

DB 21 December 2018

"C15 octagonal ashlar font"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147719 

DB 9 September 2018

A circular font with four corner shafts dating from the Transitional period. An unusual design.

June 2017

The circular font dates from about 1200.

The four polygonal shafts at the corners have capitals with ribbed leaves, waterleaf and crockets.

September 2013

This fine 15th century octagonal font is, according to Simon Jenkins, ‘worth crossing Lincolnshire to see’.

Images carved on the faces include: a figure playing a stringed instrument, a hart licking the leaves of a tree growing from its back, and a Pieta.

May 2009

"C20 font with quatrefoiled panels"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359500 

DB 14 February 2019

The sides of the early 13th century font are decorated with a variety of motifs –  flowers, circles and zig-zags.

September 2014

"Fittings include outstanding C14 font with pierced octagonal stem enclosing a devil, and elaborately traceried bowl"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1194848 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states

"the font is a particularly rich and beautiful specimen of Decorated work, panelled and elaborately carved" 

DB 12 November 2018

"C15 octagonal font with panel tracery on bowl and pedestal"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359659 

Church Guide states that the font came from Saint Mary's Church, Horncastle when that church was restored in 1861. 

DB 3 September 2018

"Octagonal stone font in Norman style, probably reworked C19"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1298472 

DB 29 March 2018

Pevsner describes the font at Benniworth as "Neo-Norman", presumably designed by Fowler for the Victorian restoration of the church.

July 2012

Octagonal font with quatrefoil and panelled decoration in the Perpendicular style.

October 2017

"octagonal C19 font in elaborate C14 style, by Edward Welby Pugin, on large stepped stone plinth"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388844 

DB 1 May 2019 

The square Norman font has been recut, and has decoration of the 17th century.

September 2014

Presumably an original fitting from 1910.

DB 20 February 2019

"fine C13 font"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360529 

DB 1 December 2018

"Ornate C15 octagonal font"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147497 

DB 2 July 2018

The font is octagonal in shape, Perpendicular in style, with leaves and heads against the underside and simple tracery and the Instruments of the Passion against the bowl.

May 2016

C19 Font.

DB 16 December 2018

Burgh-le-Marsh, has outstanding Jacobean woodwork in the pulpit, font cover & north chapel screen.

Mark Acton, 2008

"All fittings are C19 including stone altar rails, octagonal font and facetted ashlar pulpit"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359948 

DB 9 September 2018

The font is a plain octagonal bowl on a square base.

September 2016

"Font has C13 clustered columned base and C19 battered octagonal bowl with contemporary lid"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1308528 

DB 9 June 2018

"Romanesque drum font with scallop moulding above blind arcading of intersecting round arches on piers with foliate capitals; cylindrical pedestal"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1083706 

DB 17 June 2018

C14 font on a square base with an octagonal bowl.

Traceried windows in each panel. 

DB 14 March 2018 

The font dates from around 1200, much the earliest survival of the medieval church on this site.

It is circular on a square base with shafts at each corner. The faces of the bowl are lightly carved with a decorative frieze.

The base has been recently restored.

October 2016

"Font is C19 octagonal and chalice shaped"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1317320 

DB 25 April 2018

"C14 hexagonal font with ogee traceried panels, ornate gables and pinnacles"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062912 

A brass plaque nearby states that the font was moved to its present position in December 1909. 

DB 24 September 2018

The medieval font in the church of All Hallows, Clixby.

Behind the font are pieces of a thirteenth century arch set in the wall.

May 2011

The plain cylindrical font at St Edith's.

June 2013

The drum shaped font is late Norman C11.

Metal basin dates from 1819 and was bought for 6s 6d. 

Font cover is modern 2009. 

DB 9 May 2018

The octagonal font has part fifteenth century stem with panels containing sacred symbols and floriate designs, and also twelfth century billet moulded blank arcading the panels filled with fleurons and trefoils.

Isaac Newton was baptised in this font January 1642.

March 2017

"The C13 font has an octagonal bowl with stop chamfers to the square base which is now supported on a free standing marble shaft added in 1893"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1309158 

DB 7 April 2019

The stem of the octagonal font at Cowbit has traceried panels and a bowl with inscribed fleurons.

September 2017

This small plain octagonal font dates from the Perpendicular period.

June 2017

A simple circular font with octagonal rim.

March 2017

The large octagonal font has shields in simple panels and a bowl supported on busts.

May 2016

Font presumably dates from 1925 when the church was completed.

DB 19 February 2019

A simple octagonal font in Perpendicular style.

July 2011

The font in All Saints church dates from the Norman period.  It is drum shaped with intersecting tracery.

Mark Acton, 2014

The font in All Saints church dates from the Norman period.  It is drum shaped with intersecting tracery.

June 2014

The large circular tub font is early 12th century, and is decorated with blank arcading.

September 2014

"The C15 octagonal font has rosettes and lion masks in quatrefoil panels and is set on an octagonal pillar decorated with rosettes"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062370 

DB 16 September 2018

"Early English tub-shaped font"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1061958 

DB 11 August 2018

"Late C12 drum font with intersecting pointed arcade inscribed, with broad cable decorated band below, and roll moulded above"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063688 

DB 9 September 2018

Marble font presumably dating from the 1874-6 rebuild.

DB 25 June 2018

C19 font at west end of church.

DB 20 May 2018

The font in St Andrew's is from the Decorated period. It is a plain octagonal bowl with panelled sides.

October 2016

Of unknown origin, but presumably the base of the font pre-dates the present church (1800)?

August 2013

Very fine late Norman font about 1180.

DB 26 March 2018

Mid C18 Marble font.

Positioned opposite the pulpit. 

DB 19 June 2018

The octagonal font, with quatrefoils in the principal faces of the bowl, was originally in the church at Laughton.

July 2017

"Large C14 octagonal font with slender rolls defining each side and St. Andrew's crosses incised on each side"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063689 

DB 9 September 2018

C19 font and cover.

DB 11 March 2019

The large octagonal font dates from the Perpendicular period. There are various religious scenes on the stem and around the bowl.

The Gothic font cover is by Walter Topper, 1899.

March 2017

"C14 octagonal font with traceried panels, each divided by a mullion and each with variant forms of reticulated tracery"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062882 

DB 11 March 2019

"C14 octagonal font with panels of traceried design"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1253290 

DB 22 March 2019 

The octagonal font with its cusped panels and shields is Perpendicular work of the 14th or 15th century.

July 2014

A large octagonal font of unusual design with deeply incised carved decoration.

June 2017

"C14 octagonal font with panelled sides on a C13 shafted base;

C18 font cover"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1379386 

DB 13 October 2018

"The fittings are all C19, including octaqonal font in C13 style with blank pointed arcades to base"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359687 

DB 20 July 2018

Holy Trinity's font dates from the fifteenth century and is a simple octagonal shape on a shafted base.

January 2017

"C14 octagonal font with shaped base, fleurons to the sides of the bowl and moulded rim, also with foliage"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1215674 

DB 21 January 2019

Norman bowl set on a modern square base.

Oak and wrought iron cover 1949. 

DB 11 April 2018

Barrel font in transitional style c1200.

DB 25 September 2018

St Andrew's font is circular on a square base with four corner shafts.

June 2017

"C14 octagonal font on octagonal pedestal and broached base"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1307152 

DB 3 September 2018

C20 font.

DB 9 November 2018

A relatively modern font, probably dating from the construction of the church in 1840.

September 2017

The font dates from the restoration of 1926 and incorporates cable moulding dating from the late Saxon or early Norman period.

May 2016

"C14 octagonal pedestal of font with traceried panels, each with trefoiled head and with angels and foliage in spandrels.

C15 octagonal font with symbols of the instruments of the Passion on each face"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165999 

This font was where Michael Ramsey, subsequently 100th Archbishop of Canterbury, was baptised on 28th December 1904.

DB 5 May 2018

Holy Trinity Church became redundant in 1972 and has now been converted into the Trinity Centre selling antiques and collectables.

Image shows the font still hiding among the antiques.  

"Font with 8 squat shafts with ornate capitals which support 8 elongated trefoil headed arches with chip star decoratioin, spandrels rise up and merge with round bowl"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1262706 

DB 19 December 2018

C19 octagonal stone font.

DB 19 December 2018

The fifteenth century font is octagonal with shields in pointed quatrefoils on the faces of the bowl.

June 2017

"The octagonal font is C15 with shields in cusped panels and stem with traceried designs"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1146549 

DB 18 February 2019

"The early C13 tub font has bowl supported on round shaft with 4 attached colonettes.

Finely carved oak openwork font cover with crockets and finials"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1308771 

Font cover not evident when this image was taken.

DB 27 June 2018

The octagonal font decorated with quatrefoils is 14th century.

July 2014

The font, an octgonal bowl on an octagonal stem, is plain and undecorated.

May 2016

"Font probably 1802, a small bowl on bulbous baluster on square base"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1288189 

DB 26 January 2019

The font - a hemispherical bowl on a single baluster shaft - dates from the eighteenth century.

May 2016

C19 font decorated for the harvest festival.

DB 10 October 2018

"Octagonal font bowl on C20 base"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1083025 

Font was moved here here in 1963 from a baptistry in the south porch. 

DB 14 May 2019

DB 2 May 2018

The font, made of marble, has with clean lines and modest decoration. It dates from 1901.

May 2016

Presumably part of the C19 refit.

DB 16 September 2018

The font dates from the early 1200s but the sides of the octagonal bowl were carved later - possibly in the sixteenth century - with unidentifiable scenes and figures.

June 2017

The gift of Bishop Alexander some time after 1141.

Made in Tournai, Belgium by Flemish craftsmen using Tournai Marble quarried on the banks of the river Escaut.

Decoration round the sides of the bowl consists of grotesque animals and mythical dragons representing original sin.

Steps are modern placed there in 1890 by Dean Butler.

Seven of these very expensive Tournai fonts still survive in Britain although only three of these are complete including this one.

The most famous other example is at Winchester Cathedral however there is another one in Lincoln Diocese at Thornton Curtis which originally belonged to the Knights Templar.

DB 14 March 2016

Detail of font decoration.

A horizontal crack across the bowl can be seen which might be transport damage. The font was brought from Tournai, Belgium shortly after 1141.

Alternatively it might have been damaged during the earthquake of 1185 which caused much of the cathedral to collapse. 

DB 29 August 2018

"A stone font of simple chaste design was presented by the Rev John Fowler (who was the Headmaster of the local Grammar School)"

https://lincolnwigfordhistory.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/complete-mike-garrett-dissertation-st-botolph-by-bargate-church.pdf 

Probably of a similar date 1903 to the pulpit.

In 2018 Saint Botolph became the Orthodox Church of St Basil the Great & St Paisios. 

DB 8 September 2018

Positioned near the southern entrance to the church.

DB 15 January 2018

"C15 buttressed octagonal font"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388597 

DB 18 October 2018 

Octagonal C19 font.

Moved to second bay of north aisle in 2002. 

DB 8 November 2018

"C11 tub font with blind arcading, on a renewed stem"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388599 

DB 8 September 2018

"the font is a recut of the original late C13 font and includes the original base.

It comprises an octagonal bowl with traceried panels on a square pedestal with engaged columns at the angles, on a stepped base"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1166212

DB 12 May 2018

C19 font.

DB 8 April 2019

The simple octagonal font probably dates from the Perpendicular 15th century period. Fitted steps indicate its unusual height.

Faces of the bowl carry faded lettering.

March 2017

"C12 octagonal stone font on short polygonal pillars with polygonal capitals with C12 stiff leaf capitals set above"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062891 

DB 31 October 2018

Pevsner states

"1867 by G.F.Bodley, alabaster with crocketed ogees around the stem". 

DB 12 September 2018

St James has two fonts. Pevsner states that this font was

"Found in a garden. Octagonal, Perp, with a panelled stem and a leaf frieze on the bowl"

DB 12 September 2018

Low Toynton's font can now be found in the Church of All Hallows, Clixby.

"Font is C15 and imported from the church at Low Toynton (Lincs.). Octagonal in shape with in arcades round the stem figures of saints. The bowl also octagonal, and in the square side panels are angels, a Tudor rose, other flowers and pairs of figures"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359798

The entry in White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 for Low Toynton states :-

"The Church (St. Peter) was rebuilt in 1811, and has a very curiously sculptured font"

DB 19 May 2019 

An interesting font of the fifteenth century, though sadly neglected in this church shortly before it was declared redundant.

Four men are depicted on the stem of the font and four angels on the bowl.

Naomi Field, 1995

Decorated style octagonal ashlar font 1848.

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1194836 

DB 4 May 2019

St Helen's octagonal font dates from the Perpendicular period. It has simple panels with low, flat ogee arches and large finials.

April 2016

"C19 tall octagonal font with hood"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359971 

DB 22 October 2018

Modern font 1963 made from polished Ancaster stone.

Designed by L.H. Bond and made by Mr George Brown a local stonemason.

DB 1 June 2019

A simple but well-proportioned octagonal font with recessed panels on each face of the stem.

March 2016

"fine stone font"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1205493 

Church built 1876.

DB 7 May 2019

"C14 octagonal font with ogee panels to the bowl"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1166344 

DB 9 November 2018

A simple and unremarkable font, probably of the fifteenth century.

December 2017

A large octogonal font dating from the 1400s.

October 2017

Marble font and carved wooden font cover, dating from the 1891 rebuilding.

May 2010

The marble font - a square pillar with octagonal bowl and painted wooden ogee-shaped cover - is contemporary with the nave of 1722.

July 2011

The font in All Saints Church, Moulton, has a relief carving depicting the Baptism of Christ.

Flanking the stem of this "bulgy bowl" (Pevsner) are the figures of Adam and Eve.

It was made in 1719 by William Tydd.

Ken Redmore 2010

Smaller font in the foreground is Norman.

Baptistry under the tower contains a font exhibited in The Great Exhibition of 1851. This was subsequently donated to the church in 1876 by Charles Kirk.

DB 19 March 2018 

Closer view of the elaborate font by Chatles Kirk Junior, 1862.

November 2017

A relatively modern font (contemporary with the 1874 Fowler work?) with painted decoration.

April 2017

"The font is late C12 in the shape of a mortar with 4 vertical bands, one of which terminates in a shield; it stands on a C19 base"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064189 

Pevsner suggests it is a re-used kitchen mortar. 

DB 20 May 2018

Plain font dating from C12. 

DB 26 March 2018

Church fittings including the font presumably date to 1858 when the church was rebuilt.

DB 17 January 2019

Portable font. 

DB 25 May 2019

The font at St Peter's dates from the Perpendicular period. It has lozenge shaped panels with shields.

October 2016

"C14 font which is octagonal, with elaborate stem with clustered chamfered shafts with pyramidal stepped bases"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359705 

DB 26 October 2018

Font "is made from reused sections of a massive drum pillar, quite out of scale with anything which survives, and of uncertain date.

The topmost section is probably a reused and inverted capital of which one plain volute survives"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165122 

DB 20 May 2018

The font at St Martin's with finely carved cover.

August 2015

The octagonal font carries patterns mainly of the Decorated period.

September 2015

C19 font.

DB 14 February 2019

The octagonal font at St Peter's is from the Decorated period.

It is supported by a cluster of filleted shafts and has panels with quatrefoils around the bowl.

March 2013

"The disappointing font comprises a section of reused medieval moulded shaft with a cushion capital top"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1215306 

On the other hand an explanatory text in the church states :-

"The Norman font was probably a pillar piscina from the monastery"

Located at the west end beneath the tower. 

DB 19 April 2019

Presumably dating from the 1868 restoration.

DB 19 May 2019

This octagonal font came from the medieval church in the parish and dates from the Perpendicular period.

Each side of the octagon has three cusped arches with panel tracery above.

September 2015

"The octagonal font is C15 with shields in quatre-foils"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1261821 

DB 6 August 2018

"C15 octagonal bowl and stem with cusped shields to the sides of the bowl"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359490 

DB 10 December 2018

"C15 octagonal bowl and stem with cusped shields to the sides of the bowl"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359490 

DB 10 December 2018

"Large C13 drum font with octagonal pedestal with 4 attached shafts"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1205227 

DB 9 September 2018

Positioned near the door from the south porch. 

"Plain C19 octagonal font on shafted column base"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1083718 

DB 14 June 2019

The font at St Germain's probably dates from the 1876 restoration of the church by Charles Kirk

May 2016

St Andrew's font has an octagonal base - possibly fifteenth century - but the circular bowl is more recent and decidedly plain.

June 2017

"The font is late C18, an octagonal bowl on an octagonal pedestal with a square base"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063371 

DB 19 May 2019

"octagonal C11 scalloped font"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1236949 

DB 6 February 2019 

The Norman font is drum-shaped with coupled shafts. The cover, in Jacobean style, dates from the nineteenth century.

April 2016

The octagonal font has a panelled stem and moulded bowl on large heads. There is a top band of fleurons with small heads.

September 2015

The fone is octagonal in section and dates from the Perpendicular period.

The decoration is attractive and cleanly cut. In squares on the stem are leaves, flowers and faces. The bowl is decorated with quatrefoils and surmounted by crenallation.

March 2017

"Decorated font, much repaired"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062157 

DB 20 June 2018

The font dates from the Victorian restoration of the church. Surely it is 'one off the peg' and not designed by Teulon.

October 2016

"Fine font with panelled octagonal traceried stem, the bowl has angel supporters and on the sides are shields with Symbols of the Passion, and the Virgin Mary set in cusped roundels"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1168707 

DB 14 August 2018

The font is square, with chamfered angles, on nine shafts with fillets. On the bowl are two quatrefoils on each side.

July 2011

Stated in an appeal dated 1897 that :-

"The old Church Font found in the Vicarage Garden is being reworked up and will be placed in the proposed building"

Presumably this is the font from Bardney Vicarage Garden.

DB 20 March 2019

The ornate octagonal font was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott.

August 2016

Octagonal font contemporary with the church 1875. 

DB 20 May 2018

The font cover has three tiers of painted panels depicting the birth and childhood of Christ.

It was painted by Jesse Bayes.

Drum-shaped Norman font.

The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture gives a full description :-

http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1229/ 

DB 14 April 2018

C19 tub font.

DB 24 April 2019

"C19 octagonal font"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360092 

DB 28 August 2018 

The font dates from 1860; like the rest of the church and its fittings it was designed by John Dobson.

May 2016

A simple but stylish octagonal bowl rest on four shorts shafts and an octagonal base.

March 2017

"Plain octagonal C13 font on 4 short octagonal legs with narrow chamfered stem having fine conical cover with C14 crockets, pinnacles and central knop"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360195 

DB 17 November 2018

Located beneath the tower.

DB 26 May 2019

Presumably dating from the 1912 rebuild.

DB 2 April 2019

The font is of the Early English period, with trefoiled arches on colonnettes.

There four heads against the underside of the font.

July 2016

"Fine 15C octagonal font"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1061972 

Perpendicular style font with decoration around the bowl including bold diagonal leaves and flowers also a small figure with outstretched arms.

DB 16 June 2018

St Peter's font, thirteenth century in date, is a simple tub shape with decorated frieze along the rim.

August 2017

Octagonal Perpendicular period (fifteenth century) font.

Mark Acton, 2016

Was this font salvaged from the 12th-century church destroyed in a Second World War air raid on the night of 8 May 1941?

DB 30 April 2018

The 15th century font in All Saints' church is decorated with traceried panels and emblems of the Passion. Presumably it came from the town's earlier medieval church.

July 2014

Late C19 font installed on an earlier C18 stone base.

Part of a major Victorian Restoration undertaken by the then Rector Canon Leslie-Melville.

DB 26 March 2018

"The C17 font is octagonal and decorated with shields and oak leaves"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1253411 

DB 18 June 2018

Font dates from 1881.

DB 29 May 2018

"Early C12 font with beaded interesecting arcade and scalloped capitals"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147481 

Viewed through a partly broken window. 

DB 18 April 2019

"Drum font of c.1200 with semi-circular shafts with moulded capitals supporting it, and 8 sides of drum articulated by 8 attached shafts"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064475

Pictured during the annual South Holland Church Flower Festivals. 

DB 30 April 2010

Font with quatrefoils in the faces of the octagonal bowl and panels in Perpendicular style in the stem.

September 2017

This Saxon font in St Clement’s, Worlaby, was discarded in the early twentieth century and used as a garden tub for sixty years.

Mark Acton, 2015

"C19 octagonal stone font on tall pedestal, with ogee hood"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147509 

DB 12 May 2018