Risley

Results: 2 records

B01: coat of arms - Willoughby

Scene Description: repeated four times, a/p identification in Cox & Harvey

B02: design element - patterns - strapwork

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 01186RIS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located near Stapleford, 6 km S of Ilkeston, 12 km E of Derby
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 16th century(late), Tudor
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Derbyshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978