Farnsfield

INFORMATION

FontID: 01811FAR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael [or St. David]
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael [or St. David]
Church Location: 49 Main St, Farnsfield, Newark NG22 8EF, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 7526 749343
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 6 km WNW of Southwell
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 13th century [stem and base only?] [composite font], Early English [altered]
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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.101975, -1.036303
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 6′ 7.11″ N, 1° 2′ 10.69″ W
UTM: 30U 631467 5885416

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

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