Flawborough

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches

INFORMATION

FontID: 01798FLA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Main St, Flawborough SK 74 SE, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located N of the Vale of Blevoir, 3 km from Elton, 10-12 km S of Newark-on-Trent
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1150?
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Norman
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period with a font cover dated 1660. Cox (1912) writes: "Circular Norm[an] font, diameter 2 ft. 3 in., is ornamented with interlaced arcading. Doorway and font are somewhat late in style, c. 1150. Flat font cover c. 1660, base modern." Described in Guilford (1927) as a "Norman circular font with shallow arcading round it".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.982919, -0.832965
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 58′ 58.51″ N, 0° 49′ 58.67″ W
UTM: 30U 645478 5872568

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 67.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in Cox (1912)]

LID INFORMATION

Date: ca. 1660?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

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