Ockbrook

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 01556OCK
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Church St, Ockbrook, Derby DE72 3RB, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1332 820084
Country Name: England
Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 6.5 km E of Derby
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Font Notes:
Kelly's Directory for 1891 reports: "a new font was placed in the church in 1878, in memory of the late vicar, replacing an older and still existing font of the 12th century" [source: 1996-2006 transcription by Ann & Andy Andrews reproduced in The Andrews Pages [www.andrewspages.dial.pipex.com/dby/kelly/wingfieldnorth.htm]. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as baptismal font of the Norman period. Noted in Pevsner (1978): "Font. Norman, tub-shaped, with interlaced arches."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.91716, -1.37123
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 55′ 1.78″ N, 1° 22′ 16.43″ W
UTM: 30U 609512 5864297

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Kelly, Kelly's Directory of the counties of Derby, Notts., Leicester and Rutland, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1891
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Derbyshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978