page_title: St Wulfram's Church, Grantham
section_title: Fixtures and fittings
hierarchical_section_title: St Wulfram's Church, Grantham / Fixtures and fittings
caption_attribution_description: English: St Wulfram's, Grantham - font
context_page_description: St Wulfram's Church, Grantham, is a parish church in the Church of England in Grantham in Lincolnshire. The church has been a Grade I listed building, since 8 May 1950.
  In his book England's Thousand Best Churches, Simon Jenkins begins his description of St Wulfram's: "Here is the finest steeple in England", and in 2020 an online contest run by poet Jay Hulme named it as the finest non-cathedral English church.
context_section_description: The reredos, designed by Arthur Blomfield, who submitted drawings in 1881, was constructed in 1883/84 by Heaton, Butler and Bayne of London and dedicated to Canon G. Body; it was painted by Charles Floyce, a later partner of Charles Edgar Buckeridge. The cost of reredos and east window, some £1,800, was paid for by subscription. In 1901/02 four of its 19 panels were raised and seven new panels added. It was mounted in a wide elaborately-carved frame and moved forward from the east window onto a green and white marble plinth.
  A brass cross on the super-altar was designed by Arthur Blomfield in 1886. The medieval font from about 1496 has an ornate cover shaped like a church spire designed by Sir Walter Tapper in 1899 to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria. The cover's interior is decorated with carvings of Edward the Confessor, St Hugh and St Wulfram. Before the cover was added, the font stood on a low stone plinth but is now raised. Each of the font's eight faces, its shaft and base is covered with carvings which are worn and damaged, but appear to show the Annunciation, the Nativity, the Circumcision of Jesus, the Baptism of Jesus, Christ blessing the little children, the Transfiguration, the sacrifice of Isaac and the Three Wise Men. Emblems and devices on the underside of the font include a pelican and a Tudor rose which may suggest the font's donor was Richard Foxe, from Ropsley, who re-founded the King's School, Grantham. Four emblems – an angel, a lion, an ox and an eagle may denote the Four Evangelists. The font shaft has seven figures and an empty eighth space. St Andrew and his cross are identifiable. The font base has roses, quatrefoils and masks.
caption: The font, with cover by Sir Walter Tapper
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