Edingley

INFORMATION

FontID: 01795EDI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parisch Church of St. Giles
Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Church Location: Station Rd, Edingley, Newark NG22 8BX, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 5 km WNW of Southwell
Font Location in Church: disappeared? [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Font Notes:
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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.095628, -1.007769
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 5′ 44.26″ N, 1° 0′ 27.97″ W
UTM: 30U 633396 5884763

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912
Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, London: Kelly & Co., 1881