Farndon nr. Newark

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01810FAR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: 9 W End, Farndon, Newark NG24 3SG, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1636 650063
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 4 km WSW of Newark
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Noted as an Early English font in this church in the Transactions of the Thoroton Society (1900). In Cox (1912): "Under tower is plain octagonal font, late 14th cent.; over it a modern tabernacled cover." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) and in Guilford (1927) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. The tall open-work wooden cover is late-19th century, according to the Parish web site [http://www.farndon-hawton.org.uk/main_pages/spf.php] [accessed 2 April 2009]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.057778, -0.855556
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 3′ 28″ N, 0° 51′ 20″ W
UTM: 30U 643713 5880848

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century / Victorian
Material: wood,
Apparatus: yes [unknown -- pulley?]
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

"Summer excursion, 1900", 4, Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 1900
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