Mugginton / Mogintun
Image copyright © Jonathan Clitheroe, 2014
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - cusped - 8
Scene Description: hexagonal font originally probably 15thC; completely re-cut in the 19thC
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jonathan Clitheroe, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 24 September 2014 by Jonathan Clitheroe [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4181137] [accessed 26 February 2019]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eamon Curry, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2011 by Eamon Curry [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:All_Saints_Church,_Mugginton,_Derbyshire.jpg] [accessed 26 February 2019]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Saxon Window in Mugginton Church. This doorway and deeply splayed window are situated at the western end of the nave in All Saints' Church. The window is 11th Century according to the English Heritage Listing and possibly pre-conquest." -- hexagonal font originally probably 15thC; completely re-cut in the 19thC
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jonathan Clitheroe, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 September 2014 by Jonathan Clitheroe [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4181137] [accessed 26 February 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 01542MUG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Mugginton, Weston Underwood, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A52, 8 km WNW of Derby
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Derby
Historical Region: Hundred of Litchurch
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century [re-tooled?], Decorated? / Perpendicular? [altered]
Church Notes: 11thC (?) church; restored 1894
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Mugginton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK2842/mugginton/] [accessed 26 February 2019]; it reports both a priest and a church in it. The entry for this place in Kelly's Directory of 1881 notes: "the font is fourteenth century work, hexagonal in shape, and recently scraped and restored, with an inscription in questionable taste". Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period, of "highly unusual hexagon shape". Noted in Pevsner (1978): "Font. Perp[endicular], hexagonal, with pointed quatrefoils; re-tooled." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK2833142876 ] notes: "Parish Church. C11, C12, C13, C14, C15 and C18. [...] C15 octagonal font with quatrefoil motifs, completely recut in C19."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.9822, -1.579
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 58′ 55.92″ N, 1° 34′ 44.4″ W
UTM: 30U 595400 5871235
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: hexagonal flat and plain; modern
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, London: Kelly & Co., 1881
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Derbyshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978