Harrington nr. Workington

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B01: inscription

Scene Description: [dating the font or, more likely, its restoration, to 1634 -- cf. Font notes]

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 4 May 2007 by Alexander P. Kapp [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/425966] [accessed 13 April 2009]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the modern font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 May 2007 by Alexander P. Kapp [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/425966] [accessed 13 April 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01536HAR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary [fromerly Priory Church]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Rectory Cl, Harrington, Workington CA14 5PN, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1946 830215

Country Name: England

Location: Cumbria, North West

Directions to Site: Located on the A597, just S of Workington

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Carlisle

Historical Region: formerly Cumberland

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: ca. 1200?

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Early English

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Cox (1913) notes two fonts: "Modern font. Old font, c. 1200, which had been built into tower, now stands at the entrance." Noted in Pevsner (1967) notes: "Font. High octagonal bowl with intersecting arches on thin colonnettes. Dated 1634, but probably medieval." [NB: it not unknown for fonts that were restored to the church after the Reformation to bear the date of the year when they were re-installed in the church -- perhaps this is one such case -- the font at present [April 2009] in the church is a modern replacement -- we have no current information on the old font noted in Cox above]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.616411, -3.558952

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 36′ 59.08″ N, 3° 33′ 32.23″ W

UTM: 30U 463905 6052251

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers

Inscription Text: [1634]

Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, Cumberland and Westmorland, London: George Allen & Co. Ltd., 1913

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cumberland and Westmorland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1967