Whitbeck / Whidbek

INFORMATION

FontID: 01537WHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Main St, Bootle, Millom LA19, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1992 718632
Country Name: England
Location: Cumbria, North West
Directions to Site: Located on the A595, 9 km NW of Millom
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Carlisle
Historical Region: formerly Cumberland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, N side of the nave
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Church Notes: medieval church restored in 1883
Font Notes:
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Cox (1913) describes it as "of an unusual and effective Early English design". The font appears, illustrated in context of the church interior, in http://www.visitcumbria.com/churches/whitbeck.htm [accessed 30 January 2010].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54° 14′ 36.96″ N, 3° 21′ 10.8″ W 54.2436, -3.353
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 14′ 36.96″ N, 3° 21′ 10.8″ W
UTM: 30U 476996 6010683

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

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