Normanton-on-Soar / Normanton on Soar / Normanton upon Soar / Normantone / Normantun / Normantune
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church interior - plan
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Image Source: church plan in Baylay (1910)
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view of font and cover
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design element - patterns - fretwork
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design element - motifs - moulding
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design element - patterns - tracery - varied
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - pointed or cusped quatrefoil - 8
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01816NOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the tower
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James
Church Address: Main Street, Normanton on Soar, Nottinghamshire, LE12 5HB
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 3 km SE of Caythorpe, 13 km N of Grantham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham
Historical Region: Hundred of Rushcliffe [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for Normanton [-on-Soar] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK5123/normanton-on-soar/] [accessed 14 July 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Moule (1837) writes: "The font is very large and ancient". Noted in Cox & Harvey (1907) and in Guilford (1927) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. White's Directory of 1853 mentions "a capacious font" inside the church. Baylay (1910) notes a "font, of somewhat unusual design" which he dates to the 15th century; his church plan shows the font located beneath the western tower. Described in Cox (1912): "Octagonal font is of a single stone, both bowl and base; of Edward III. Date [i.e., 1327-1377]; cover is c. 1660." In Pevsner & Williamson (1979) as 14th-century. The font consists of an octagonal basin decorated around the upper sideswith a band of fret above a moulding, the sides below with varied tracery patterns; the base is also octagonal and has a large pointed quatrefoil on each side; raised on a two-step circular plinth that appears modern. The wooden cover is a low octagonal pyramid with a ball finial.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 619190 5851632
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.8013, -1.232
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 48′ 4.68″ N, 1° 13′ 55.2″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: ca. 1660? / 17th-century?
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Baylay, Atwell M.Y., "Summer Excursion, 1910 (1): The Church at Normanton-on-Soar", (1910), Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 1910
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 214
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 150 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 19 October 2009]
- Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927, p. 39
- Moule, Thomas, The English counties delineated; or, A topographical description of England [...], London: George Virtue, 1837 [vol. 2], vol. 2: 238
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979, p. 209