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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Ken A good starting point is Francis Bond’s, Fonts and Font Covers (1908), downloadable from www.archive.org <http://www.archive.org> . He mentions locks two or three times (you have to use the online ‘search inside’ facility, since ‘lock’ is not in the index) in fifteenth and sixteenth century contexts. Locks made sense in the days when the font was filled once a year at Easter and left full of water until the next Easter, and when parishioners regarded holy font water as a useful medicine for e.g. sick cows. Apparently in the 1549 Prayer Book font water was to be changed monthly, though I have not verified that. I suspect that when archdeacons et al expressed concern about an absence of a font cover, they meant a lockable font cover, since it was illegal abstraction of holy water that they were really concerned about. A font cover for an empty font is no big deal. Kind regards David Critchley From: medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval religious culture <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Ken Grant Sent: 13 July 2020 14:23 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [M-R] Removing Locks from Baptismal Fonts medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Good Morning, A colleague is trying to determine when (and why) the locks were removed from baptismal fonts – could someone point me in the right direction? My thanks, Ken A. Grant Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: subscribe medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> To leave the list, send the message: unsubscribe medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/medieval-religion ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: subscribe medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: unsubscribe medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/medieval-religion