Kirklington / Cherdinton / Chelinton / Kirtlington / Kyrtelyngton

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

view of base - detail

Image Source: undated digital photograph [photographer unlnown] in the CRSBI (2019) [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1316/] [accessed 22 November 2019]

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view of basin - east side - detail

Scene Description: notice the modern-stone insert

Image Source: undated digital photograph [photographer unlnown] in the CRSBI (2019) [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1316/] [accessed 22 November 2019]

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view of church exterior - south porch

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St Swithin, Kirklington - South porch. 13th century in date, with later render, although the hood mould remains exposed."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2014 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4020570] [accessed 22 Novemvber 2019]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: as shown in a ca. 1823 illustration

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Whitaker (1823, vol. 2: 142) [https://archive.org/details/historyofrichmon12whit/page/142] [accessed 22 November 2019]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St Swithin, Kirklington. View from the south east. The most distinctive feature is the brick tower with its prominent stair turret. The chancel was entirely rebuilt in 1873-4, and the nave windows are from this date, although the fabric may include 12th century work."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2014 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4020570] [accessed 22 Novemvber 2019]

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view of church interior - vestry - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St Swithin, Kirklington - medieval carving. A 11th century carved lintel built into the modern vestry. The right hand panel is marked out as a sundial."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2014 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4020572] [accessed 22 Novemvber 2019]

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view of font

Scene Description: as shown in a ca. 1823 illustration

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Whitaker (1823, vol. 2: 142) [https://archive.org/details/historyofrichmon12whit/page/142] [accessed 22 November 2019]

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view of font - east side

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view of font - north side

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view of font - south side

Image Source: undated digital photograph [photographer unlnown] in the CRSBI (2019) [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1316/] [accessed 22 November 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01801KIR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Swithun

Church Patron Saints: St. Swithun [aka Swithin]

Church Location: Newark Rd, Kirklington, Newark NG22 8GZ, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A617 [aka Newark Rd], 4 km NW of Southwell

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham

Historical Region: Hundred of Thurgarton

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an try for Kirklington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK6757/kirklington/] [accessed 22 November 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The font is illustrated in Whitaker (1823). Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Norman period here. Described in Cox (1912): "Octagonal font, with interlaced arcading, is late Norm[an]; it is 27 in. high and of similar diameter." Listed in Guilford (1927) as a Norman font. In Pevsner & Williamson (1979): "Norman, with blank intersected arches on short columns." The entry for this church in the CRSBI (2019) notes: "The only Romanesque features are the font and a reset lintel. [...] Located at the W end of the church in front of the tower arch. An octagonal, lead-lined, limestone font standing on a later plinth. Blind arcading with intersecting arches lies above a row of chip-carved saltires in squares. There are three half-columns to each face of the font. Each has a square plinth below an attic-type base. The capitals have necking and vary between: cushion, with concave profile and raised shield; cushion, with recessed shield; and plain cushion, with the exception of the S face which has (from L to R) a double scallop capital, a voluted capital and a cushion capital. The intersecting, round-headed arches are plain. At the rim, between E and SE angle and W and NW angle, part of the upper register and lip have been replaced. [..] The types of capital used on the font and the chip-carved decoration could suggest a date in the first quarter of the 12thc., but the use of an octagonal format was rare before c. 1150-75."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.110375, -0.987114

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 6′ 37.35″ N, 0° 59′ 13.61″ W

UTM: 30U 634733 5886442

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Diameter (includes rim): 68.58 cm*

Basin Total Height: 68.58 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 63 cm**

Font Height (with Plinth): 94 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in Cox (1912)] / ** CRSBI (2019)

LID INFORMATION

Notes: metal staples from earlier font in the rim

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. Accessed: 2019-11-22 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979

Whitaker, Thomas Dunham, An history of Richmondshire, in the North Riding of the County of York [...], with illustrations by J.M.W. Turner, London: [s.n.], 1823