Sandiacre

INFORMATION

FontID: 01567SAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Gilles
Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Church Location: Church Dr, Sandiacre, Nottingham NG10 5EE, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 115 939 7163
Country Name: England
Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located in the county border with Notts., 14 km E of Derby and 10 km SW of Nottingham
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Late Decorated
Font Notes:
Reported in Kelly's Directory of 1891: "The font is Late Decorated". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy example of the Late Decorated period. Noted in Pevsner (1978) as a font "of high quality and unusual design."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.930556, -1.287222
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 55′ 50″ N, 1° 17′ 14″ W
UTM: 30U 615125 5865919

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

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