Edingley
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01795EDI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parisch Church of St. Giles
Font Location in Church: disappeared? [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Church Address: Station Rd, Edingley, Newark NG22 8BX, United Kingdom
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km WNW of Southwell
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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Noted in Kelly's Directory of 1881: "a Norman font" in this church. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Cox (1912), however, describes the font as modern [probably of the 1844 renovation of the Norman church]. Not mentioned in Pevsner & Williamson (1979).
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 633396 5884763
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.095628, -1.007769
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 5′ 44.26″ N, 1° 0′ 27.97″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 213
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 80 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 13 Oct 2009]
- Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, London: Kelly & Co., 1881, p. 45