Cropwell Bishop / Crophille
Image copyright © Southwell & Nottingham Churcu History Project, 2016
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Results: 5 records
view of font and cover - northwest side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Southwell & Nottingham Churcu History Project, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph in the Southwell & Nottingham Churcu History Project [http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/cropwell-bishop/hpics.php] [accessed 17 June 2016]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robert Wilkes, 2016
Image Source: digital image of a 2016 drawing by Robert Wilkes
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Giles' Church, Cropwell Bishop, Notts. The southern and end elevations of St Giles' Church. Church Street - the road connecting Cropwell Bishop with Cropwell Butler - runs on the other side of the tower. A public notice on the church noticeboard, dated 21 December 2013 and signed by the Rector, advises prospective worshippers and visitors that the church is currently closed for services due to potential danger to users that could result from (unspecified) structural defects."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Hallam-Jones, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 January 2014 by David Hallam-Jones [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3811953] [accessed 17 June 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: with the font at the end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 September 2012 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3173480] [accessed 17 June 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 February 2013 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3326531] [accessed 17 June 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01814CRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (early?) [re-tooled?], Decorated [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Giles
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, nave, towards the W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Church Address: 5 Fern Road, Cropwell Bishop, Nottinghamshire NG12 3BU
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just S of Cropwell Butler, 15 km ESE of Nottingham, E of the A46, S of the A52
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham
Historical Region: Hundred of Bigham [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: altered font? (re-tooled?)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Cropwell [Bishop] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK6835/cropwell-bishop/] [accessed 17 June 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) and Cox (1912) report a baptismal font of the 14th century here, "much scraped", and a font cover of 1662. In Guilford as Decorated. Font and cover are noted in Pevsner & Williamson (1979): "Font. Octagonal, Dec[orated], with a font cover of 1662." The font consists of an octagonal basin with plain vertical sides chamfered around the top, a chamfered underbowl, raised on a short octagonal stem and an octagonal-to-square splaying lower base; on a modern rectangular (?) plinth.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 635640 5864460
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.912659, -0.982809
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 54′ 45.57″ N, 0° 58′ 58.11″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1662?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 174, 214
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 75
- Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927, p. 39
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979, p. 109