Bramcote

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches

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BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding

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BBU01: design element - motifs - moulding - patterned

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view of font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01808BRA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels [originally from St. Luke]
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels
Church Location: 43 Church St, Bramcote, Nottingham NG9 3H, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 115 943 0137
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 8 km SW of Nottingham
Font Location in Church: Inside the Church of St. Michael [originally from St. Luke]
Date: ca. 1250?
Century and Period: 13th century (mid? / late?), Early English
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) and in Guilford (1927) as a noteworthy example of Early English font. Cox (1912) notes: "Old font transferred to new church; circular bowl arcaded with narrow trefoil-headed arches; it is of 2nd quarter of 13th cent." In Guilford (1927) a font of ca. 1250 in the new church. Described in Pevsner & Williamson (1979): "The font, later C13 with a frieze of black pointed-trefoil arcades, was transferred" [from the old abandoned church in ruins to the new church built in 1861]. The font is raised on a quadrangular plinth; the inner weel of the basin is lead-lined.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.935, -1.246111
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 56′ 6″ N, 1° 14′ 46″ W
UTM: 30U 617876 5866480

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined

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