Risley
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01186RIS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(late), Tudor
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Site Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near Stapleford, 6 km S of Ilkeston, 12 km E of Derby
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a heraldic baptismal font of the Perpendicular period, a noteworthy, late-Elizabethan alabaster octagonal font; with the arms of the Willoughby repeated four times. Noted in Pevsner (1978): "Font. Alabaster, octagonal, on a tapering shaft; with strapwork decoration."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 612960 5864248
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, alabaster
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 170, 195
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Derbyshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978, p. 310