Beeston / Bestune

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design element - motifs - moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Southwell & Nottingham Church Project, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph in the Southwell & Nottingham Church Project [http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/b06/hfitting.html] [accessed 10 July 2009]

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - patterns - piping

Scene Description: all around, between mouldings at top and bottom

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: view of the church before the exterior cleaning

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 January 2004 by Andrewrabbott [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StJohnBeeston.JPG] [accessed 24 October 2018]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St John the Baptist, Beeston. The cleaning work is now complete, and the church has been unwrapped."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alan Murray-Rust, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 October 2013 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3720178] [accessed 24 October 2018]

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view of font - west side

Scene Description: the font after the 2013 restoration work in this church -- note the removal of the cover and the plinth, and the general 'cleaning' of the stone

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view of font and cover - northeast side

Scene Description: the font before the 2013 restoration work in this church

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view of font in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01807BEE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Middle St, Beeston, Nottingham NG9 1GA, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the B6006, 5 km SW of Nottingham city centre, now a suburb of it
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham
Historical Region: Hundred of Broxtowe
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 13th century (early?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
There is an entry for this Beeston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK5236/beeston/] [accessed 24 October 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Early English period here. In Cox (1912): "Upper part of font original, early 13th cent." Deverill (1927) [cited in http://www.beeston-notts.co.uk/deverill.shtml [accessed 10 July 2009] informs: "We have no remains whatever of any portion of that Norman Church in our present building; in fact the only relic we have of the 13th century church which followed, is the font, the top half of which is Early English of Henry III time. This was discovered when the Church was rebuilt in 1842, and was somewhere under the altar, where it had been stored away for a long lapse of time." Noted in Pevsner & Williamson (1979). The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK5276636744] notes: "Parish church. Chancel C15, remainder rebuilt 1842 by Scott and Moffatt. Enlarged 1876 by C. H. Thornton. Organ chamber 1876. Vestry 1897. [...] Fittings include reeded round font, C11, re-set on C14 style base, 1842." The Southwell & Nottingham Church History Project site [http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/b06/hfitting.html] [accessed 10 July 2009] notes: "The upper part of an Early Norman font was discovered under the Communion table and set on a new base. It was believed to have been made during the reign of Henry III (1216-72). It is now situated at the rear of the church [cf. infra]. A pointed lid used to be suspended from the roof, but is now in the belfry. The present cover was carved by Mr R Shaw, a former churchwarden, and is inscribed 'John did baptize in the wilderness and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins'", and illustrates the font. [NB: a PRLog press release of 1 June 2009 on the restoration of this church [http://www.prlog.org/10247757-beeston-church-restoration-secures-rics-award-for-latham-architects.html] [accessed 10 July 2009] informed that "the Early English stone font was removed from its concrete dias and relocated in the centre of the nave."]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.925556, -1.216667
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 55′ 32″ N, 1° 13′ 0″ W
UTM: 30U 619881 5865478

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: the metal lining in 2013 appears new

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, crown-shaped, the upper really a crenellation; has an inscription around the sides

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