Edlingham

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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Dawson, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2007 by Richard Dawson [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/535777] [accessed 19 January 2010]
Copyright Instructions: Reproduced here under the provisions of the Creative Commons Licence [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/] [accessed 19 January 2010]

INFORMATION

Font ID: 01784EDL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1701?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [basin only] / 18th century -- [composite font?], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Church of St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Address: Edlingham, Alnwick NE66 2BL, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 16977 41864
Site Location: Northumberland, North East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B6341, 8-9 km SW of Alnwick
Additional Comments: composite font? / disappeared font?
Font Notes:
Wilson (1870) notes and illustrates a font "of Early English workmanship", located at the west end of the nave of this church. The drawing shows an octagonal font raised on a two-step plinth. Wilson (ibid.) further notes: "a Saxon church is said to have been consecrated here by Bishop Ecfrid. No remains of it are to be detected above ground, unless the archway from the church into the tower be Saxon […] the foundations of the whole may still be in situ." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907). Described in Pevsner (1957): Font. Dated 1701, completely plain, octagonal." Listed in Stocker (1997) as one of a group of "early font bowls set within bases of successors". The font consists of an octagonal basin with verttical sides and a tall chamfered underbowl, raised on a short stem and a splaying lower base, also octagonal, and said to be a modern [Victorian?] addition; the two-step plinth is round. The wooden cover is of Jacobean design, with vertical scroll ribs and a cross finial, but is probably 19th-century as well. [NB: the original church is probably 11th- or 12th-century, but we have no information on the original font]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 574684 6137304
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 55.37634, -1.8214
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 55° 22′ 34.82″ N, 1° 49′ 17.04″ W

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: [1701]
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 212
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northumberland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1957, p. 143
  • Stocker, D.A., "Fons et origo: The Symbolic Death and Resurrection of English Font Stones", I (1997b), Church Archaeology, 1997, pp. 17-25; p. 24
  • Wilson, Frederick Richard, An architectural survey of the churches in the Archdeaconry of Lindisfarne, in the County of Northumberland, containing plans and views […], Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Printed and photo-lithographed by M. and M. W. Lambert, 1870, p. , 127, 197 and ill. on pl. between 126 and 127