Beckingham
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01790BEC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NW corner of the S aisle [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Beckingham, Doncaster DN10 4PP, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1400 679081
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A631, 6 km W of Gainsborough
Additional Comments: damaged font / repaired font / disused font / abandoned font / replaced font
Font Notes:
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Noted in Kelly's Directory of 1881: "the font is Norman". Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Cox (1912) notes two fonts: a modern one, "Strange modern font, perfect medley of styles", and an earlier disused "old Norm[an] tub font recently discarded and put away in N.W. corner of nave, where it rests." In Guilford (1927) as a "quite plain" Norman font. Described and illustrated in the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (2008): "The font is slightly uneven in shape as one side (the E as it is currently positioned) tapers out slightly from the base. The lip is everted and has been repaired. The interior is lead lined." Not mentioned in Pevsner & Williamson (1979).
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 644276 5919365
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.403611, -0.829722
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 24′ 13″ N, 0° 49′ 47″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: cylindrical
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
REFERENCES
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 213
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 34 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 13 October 2009]
- Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927, p. 39, 56
- Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, London: Kelly & Co., 1881, p. 14