Epperstone

INFORMATION

Font ID: 01796EPP
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Church of the Holy Cross
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Cross
Church Address: 1 Main St, Nottingham NG14 6AG, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 115 966 5118
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 11 km SW of Southwell
Additional Comments: disused font / replaced font
Font Notes:
Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Huskinson & Baylay (1908) notes: "The Domesday Survey of the year 1086 records the fact that Epperstone at that time possessed a church and a priest. There may, however, have been a church here in Saxon times. The only relics left, of any earlier date than that of the existing structure [of the 14th-century], are the bowl and stem of the font, the base being modern". Cox (1912) notes: "Massive circular font Norm[an], replaced in church 1854; base modern, cover imitation Jacobean." Described in Guilford (1927) as "a rude Norman tub font".

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 632028 5877442
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.030197, -1.031192
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 1′ 48.71″ N, 1° 1′ 52.29″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: tub-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 213
  • Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 87 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 14 October 2009]
  • Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927, p. 39, 86
  • Huskinson, Thomas W., "Summer Excursion 1908: Epperstone church and manors", 12 (1908), Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 1908