Staindrop
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Results: 2 records
B01: coat of arms - Edward Neville, 1st Lord Bergavenny
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christy K. Robinson, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph in the Rooting for Ancestors blog [http://rootingforancestors.blogspot.com/] [accessed 26 September 2009]
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B02: symbol - shield - blank
Scene Description: now seven of them [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christy K. Robinson, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph in the Rooting for Ancestors blog [http://rootingforancestors.blogspot.com/] [accessed 26 September 2009]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01192STA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin [earlier dedicated to St. Gregory]
Church Location: Front St, Staindrop, Darlington DL2 3NB, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1833 660237
Country Name: England
Location: Durham, North East
Directions to Site: Located at the junction A67 (A688)-B6279, 10 km NE of Barnard Castle, 25 km WNW of Darlington
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: the font at Chester-le-Street
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a heraldic baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. In Pevsner (1983): "Font. Of Teesdale marble. Late Perp[endicular], octagonal, with plain shields." Noted and illustrated in the Rooting for Ancestors blog [http://rootingforancestors.blogspot.com/] [accessed 26 September 2009]: "The font is Egglesone marble from late 15th century, and carries the arms of Edward Neville, 1st Lord Bergavenny (d. 1476), son of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl Westmorland." The font consists of an octagonal basin with a rounded underbowl; the sides of the basin have a shield on each (one is now painted with a coat of arms; was this done after Pevsner's visit? [cf. supra], the others appear blank); on a plain octagonal stem, and a widely splayed lower base; the octagonal plinth appears modern. Wooden cover, octagonal, flat and plain; probably modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
54.579872,
-1.807852
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
54° 34′ 47.54″ N,
1° 48′ 28.27″ W
UTM: 30U 577053 6048695
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
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, County Durham, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1983