Alnham

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B01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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Image Source: digital photograph in the Northumberland National Parks Authority website [http://www.northumberlandnationalpark.org.uk/alnhampictures] [accessed 14 January 2010]

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UB01: coat of arms - Percy family

Scene Description: five-point star with leaf-shaped arms above a crescent [cf. Font notes]

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01152ALN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels
Church Location: Castle Hill, Alnham, Alnwick NE66 4TL, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 7813 169861
Country Name: England
Location: Northumberland, North East
Directions to Site: Located in the NE area of the Northumberland National Park, 8-9 km W of the A697, 60 km NW of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Date: 1664
Century and Period: 17th century, Restoration
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: the same heraldic device on the font at Ingram, also in Nothumberland
Noted in Wilson (1870): "The font is ornamented with heraldic devices, and bears date 1664. The symbols associate it with the great Percy family" [NB: in his entry for Ingram church, Wilson quotes Mr. Longstaffe, whom Wilson had asked for heraldic advice: "'A star of five points occurs above the crescent on two fonts in Northumberland in parishes containing Percy possessions, viz.: Ingram and Alnham'" -- Longstaffe points out that the arms of the star on the Alnham font "are leaf-shaped"]. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a heraldic baptismal font dated 1664. In Pevsner (1957): "Dated 1664, octagonal, with small bowl with moulded profile, still meant to be in the Gothic tradition." The font consists of an octagonal basin with tapering moulded sides [considerable damage present], raised on an octagonal pedestal stem of two parts: the upper part has the date '1664' on one side, and a five-pointed star over a crescent moon on the contiguous side to the right [cf. supra]; the lower half of the stem is plain; square lower base and octagonal plinth, both plain. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with a cross finial; modern. Illustrated in the Northumberland National Parks Authority website [http://www.northumberlandnationalpark.org.uk/alnhampictures] [accessed 14 January 2010]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 55.392775, -2.015917
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 55° 23′ 33.99″ N, 2° 0′ 57.3″ W
UTM: 30U 562333 6138941

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on the upper half of the stem
Inscription Text: "1664"

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northumberland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1957
Wilson, Frederick Richard, An architectural survey of the churches in the Archdeaconry of Lindisfarne, in the County of Northumberland, containing plans and views […], Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Printed and photo-lithographed by M. and M. W. Lambert, 1870