Baptism Font - St Peter - Tickencote, Rutland - Stone Church Artefacts on Waymarking.com

A Norman font in St Peter's church, Tickencote.

The 13th-century font has a square bowl, with an arcade of intersecting round arches on each face, foliage above and a line of dog-tooth at each angle stopped by a head below the chamfered rim. The pedestal is modern.

"[It] is a fine specimen of 13th century work, seventy or eighty years later than the chancel arch. It is enriched with dog-tooth ornament and arcading of interlacing round arches. It will be noticed that on the stone at the top there is a hold cut where in former times a bar and staple had been inserted. The reason for this was that in 1236, Edmund Rich, Archbishop of Canterbury, ordered that all fonts were to be kept locked under seal because the hallowed water was apt to be taken away. For this reason the Parish had to provide a cover, and this cover was fastened down with a bar and staple, and the hole where the staple used to be is still to be seen. The font currently is positioned close to the arch, but an 18th century plan shows that it was originally closer to the west end on the north side."

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