Farnsfield
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01811FAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [stem and base only?] [composite font], Early English [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael [or St. David]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael [or St. David]
Church Address: 49 Main St, Farnsfield, Newark NG22 8EF, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 7526 749343
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6 km WNW of Southwell
Additional Comments: disused font? / composite font?
Font Notes:
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Kelly's 1881 Directory of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire notes: "An ancient font, rescued in a disjointed condition from a rubbish heap in the graveyard, has been restored, and placed on the south side of the church; the bowl is in a debased style, but the shaft and base are of very early date". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Cox (1912) notes only an "old font in churchyard", as does Guilford (1927), who adds: "was placed in the churchyard as recently as 1880 and, unfortunately, still remains out of doors." [NB: was it the same font?] A brief history of Farnsfiled St. Michael's by the Farnsfield Local History Society [http://www.farnsfieldlhs.org.uk/church.html] [accessed 17 October 2009] notes that the font and the tower are the earliest remains of the earlier building destroyed by a fire and re-built "between 1859 and 1860" [cf. Kelly supra].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 631467 5885416
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.101975, -1.036303
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 6′ 7.11″ N, 1° 2′ 10.69″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 214
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 91 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 14 October 2009]
- Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927, p. 39, 86