Balderton / Bodderton / Baldretune
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B01: design element - motifs - floral - ball flower
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph in [http://www.stgilesbalderton.org.uk/history6.html#font] [accessed 24 March 2009]
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B02: design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Parish of Balderton, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph in [http://www.stgilesbalderton.org.uk/history6.html#font] [accessed 24 March 2009]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Parish of Balderton, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph in [http://www.stgilesbalderton.org.uk/history6.html#font] [accessed 24 March 2009]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 01789BAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Giles
Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Church Location: Balderton, Newark NG24 3LL, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1636 704811
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located near, and now a suburb of, Newark-on-Trent
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NW corner of the nave
Century and Period: 14th century (early?) [basin and stem only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Font Notes:
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Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as an early 14th-century "font ornamented with the characteristic ball-flower moulding so very seldom seen on fonts." Noted in Cox (1912) as a font from the Decorated period: "has each panel marked with vertical moulding of 3 ball-flowers." In Guilford (1927) as a good Decorated font with ball-flower decoration. Dated in Pevsner & Williamson (1979) to the early 14th century. Described and illustrated in the Parish web site [http://www.stgilesbalderton.org.uk/history6.html#font] [accessed 24 March 2009]: "The Font, which is octagonal, with ball-flower ornamentation, made around 1340 […] The Font was mounted onto its present stone and tiled plinth during the Victorian Restoration of 1882." The font is located in the north-west corner of the nave.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.054475, -0.778053
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 3′ 16.11″ N, 0° 46′ 40.99″ W
UTM: 30U 648918 5880639
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912
Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979