Edwalton

INFORMATION

Font ID: 01788EDW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Rood
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, beneath the tower
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Cross
Church Address: Village St, Edwalton, Nottingham NG12 4AB, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 115 923 4695
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near West Bridgford, in the SE subburbs of Nottingham
Font Notes:
Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as an Early English font of exceptional trough-like shape; a font cover dated 1660. Cox (1912) notes: "Under tower old font of curious trough-like shape; it measures 2 ft. 7 in. by 2 ft., and is 8 in. deep ; corners chamfered, and old lead lining, so that it seems designed after rude fashion for a font; date probably I3th cent.; coved oak cover, c. 1660." Listed in Guilford (1927). Stocker (1997), too, remarks on the shape.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 627001 5863843
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.90923, -1.11144
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 54′ 33.23″ N, 1° 6′ 41.18″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: rectangular, unmounted
Basin Interior Shape: rectangular
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Basin Depth: 20 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 60 x 77.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in Cox (1912)]

LID INFORMATION

Date: ca. 1660?
Material: wood, oak?
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 174, 213
  • Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 80 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 14 October 2009]
  • Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927, p. 39
  • Stocker, D.A., "Fons et origo: The Symbolic Death and Resurrection of English Font Stones", I (1997b), Church Archaeology, 1997, pp. 17-25; p. 22