Newton Reigny / Neuton
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 October 2005 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/542656] [accessed 9 December 2014]
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view of font and cover - east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © T M.Emmott, 2018
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken in September 2009 by T M.Emmott, in Cumbrian Churches [http://cumbrianchurches.blogspot.com/2009/09/st-john-newton-reigny.html] [accessed 14 August 2019]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © T M.Emmott, 2018
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken in September 2009 by T M.Emmott, in Cumbrian Churches [http://cumbrianchurches.blogspot.com/2009/09/st-john-newton-reigny.html] [accessed 14 August 2019]
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view of font and cover in context - east side
Scene Description: at the west end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © T M.Emmott, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken in September 2009 by T M.Emmott, in Cumbrian Churches [http://cumbrianchurches.blogspot.com/2009/09/st-john-newton-reigny.html] [accessed 14 August 2019]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01533NEW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John
Church Address: 7 Newton Meadows, Catterlen, Newton Reigny, Cumbria CA11 0AY
Site Location: Cumbria, North West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the M6, 5 km NNW of Penrith
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Carlisle
Historical Region: formerly Cumberland
Additional Comments: altered font? (12thC basin on 19thC stem)
Font Notes:
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No individual entry found for Newton Reigny in the Domesday survey. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Norman period here. Cox (1913) adds: "Circular font has a diameter of 24 in." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: NY4798431601] (1967) reports: "Parish church. Late C12 and C13 with extensive restoration of 1876 by Ewan Christian. [...] Interior of nave has C12 font on C19 stem". The only decoration on the cylindrical basin is a roll moulding at the upper rim. Flat round cover; appears modern.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 512375 6058820
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.676583, -2.808085
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 40′ 35.7″ N, 2° 48′ 29.11″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 60.96 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in Cox (1913)]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, Cumberland and Westmorland, London: George Allen & Co. Ltd., 1913, p. 110
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 194