Woodborough nr. Nottingham / Udeburg / Udesburg

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design element - motifs - ball, bead or pellet

Scene Description: in the top spandrels of the nested chevron pattern

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 18 April 1982 by Timothy Marlow

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design element - motifs - chevron - nested chevrons

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 18 April 1982 by Timothy Marlow

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design element - patterns - diaper or saltire?

Scene Description: a band of, all around

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 18 April 1982 by Timothy Marlow

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design element - patterns - diaper or saltire?

Scene Description: a band of, all around

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 18 April 1982 by Timothy Marlow

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view of church exterior - north portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "North Door, St Swithun's Church. The oldest element of the church, probably not in its original location, dating from the 12th century."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 March 2011 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2321470] [accessed 27 February 2015]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2013 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3518370] [accessed 27 February 2015]

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view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2005 by Tom Courtney [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/38999] [accessed 27 August 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2013 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3518403] [accessed 27 February 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2013 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3518428] [accessed 27 February 2015]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: standing on the modern polygonal lower base or plinth

Image Source: photograph taken 18 April 1982 by Timothy Marlow

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "St.Swithun's font. 12th century Romanesque tub font in St.Swithun's church"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2013 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3518467] [accessed 27 February 2015]

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view of font cover

Scene Description: the mid-19th century cover

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 18 April 1982 by Timothy Marlow

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01806WOO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Swithun

Church Patron Saints: St. Swithun [aka Swithin]

Church Location: Main Street, Woodborough, Notts, NG14 6DX

Country Name: England

Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located 13 km NE of Nottingham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham

Historical Region: Hundred of Thurgarton [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle, by the S door [cf. FontNotes]

Date: ca. 1150?

Century and Period: 12th century [re-tooled / re-carved], Norman [altered?]

Cognate Fonts: the font at Wragby, WRYrks, for example

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Timothy Marlow for his photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are seven entries for this Woodborough [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SK6347/woodborough/] [accessed 27 February 2015]; of these, one, in the lordship and tenancy of Ralph of Limesy, reports a priest and a church in it; a second entry here appears in the lordship and tenancy of a cleric from the archbishopric of York St. Peter, but there is no mention of a church in it. A font here is listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. In Cox (1912) as Norman and "much scraped". Gill (1909) noted: "the font by the south door. Although it looks so very new, it is actually the font belonging to the Norman church. It is made out of single block of Mansfield stone. I made a sketch in 1873, when it stood 'on a round pillar in the form of a stilton cheese'. The oak cover is quite modern (1846). At one time this font stood in the chancel near the altar rails. (Baptism was administered in the vicarage at that time.)" [NB: "Mansfield stone", i.e., stone from the medieval quarries of Mansfield varied a lot in composition depending on the depth of the cut, being chiefly limestone at the shallow levels, and higher in sand in the deeper strata -- see [www.stuffynwood.com/PQ.html [accessed 27 February 2015] for details]. Listed as a Norman font in Guilford (1927). In Pevsner & Williamson (1979): "Norman, of the usual tub-shape, but decorated with crosses at top and bottom and three rows of zigzags between." Noted in the Southwell Churches website [http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/woodborough/hfitting.php] [accessed 6 January 2010]: "By order of the Archbishop of York a small Norman church was built about 1150 by the then Lord of the Manor, Ralf de Wodeburg, on the site of the present nave. The foundations of its north and south walls were revealed during restoration work in 1892 and the present (reset) Norman door and font are the other surviving relics […] The round font which now stands near the entrance is cut from a solid piece of Mansfield stone and probably first stood near the west door of the Norman church. Its oak cover is more recent, being given by Henry Patching in 1846, although he may have obtained it from another church!"

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.022778, -1.059722

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 1′ 22″ N, 1° 3′ 35″ W

UTM: 30U 630137 5876565

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone? [Mansfield stone]

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: tub-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: mid-19th century?

Material: wood, oak

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Baylay, Atwell M.Y., "Summer excursion 1908: Woodborough Church", 12 (1908), Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 1908

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912

Gill, Harry, "Summer excursion 1909: Everton", 13 (1909), Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 1909

Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927

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