Stapleford nr. Nottingham

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph in the Southwell & Nottingham Church History Project [http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/stapleford-st-helen/pfont.jpg] [accessed 22 June 2016]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph in the Southwell & Nottingham Church History Project [http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/stapleford-st-helen/pfont.jpg] [accessed 22 June 2016]

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view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Anglo Saxon Cross, St Helen's Church"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2003 by Jeff Tomlinson [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/411929] [accessed 22 June 2016]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 8 February 2014 by Dave Kelly [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3842923] [accessed 22 June 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "The interior looking east" -- the font was moved in the 2009 re-ordering of the interior of the church towards the east end of the south aisle; it is partially visible here behind the second pillar on the right

Image Source: digital photograph [ca. 2009?] in the Southwell & Nottingham Church History Project [http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/stapleford-st-helen/pinte.jpg] [accessed 22 June 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "The nave before 1877 with box pews" -- the font is discernible at the far end, beneath the west gallery

Image Source: digital image of a 1877 (?) B&W photograph in the Southwell & Nottingham Church History Project [http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/stapleford-st-helen/pnavepre1877.jpg] [accessed 22 June 2016]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph in the Southwell & Nottingham Church History Project [http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/stapleford-st-helen/pfont.jpg] [accessed 22 June 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01818STA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Helen

Church Patron Saints: St. Helena

Church Location: Church Lane, Stapleford, Nottinghamshire NG9 8AQ

Country Name: England

Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located at the B5010-B6003 crossroads, 9 WSW of Nottingham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham

Historical Region: Hundred of Broxtowe [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]

Date: ca. 1300?

Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for this Stapleford in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK4837/stapleford/] [accessed 22 June 2016]; it mentions a priest and a church in it. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) and in Guilford (1927) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. Cox (1912) writes: "Circular font c. 1300; domed cover, with wooden knob, is of metal, most unusual, apparently of 1660 period." The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: SK4885637362] (1949) reports: "Fittings include font c.1300, re-sited 1976, tapered base and stem, irregular moulded conical bowl. Unusual spun copper cover with turned knob, late C17." Pevsner & Williamson (1979) note the font cover only: "Iron with a wooden knob; second half of the C17". The irregular round basin has mouldings at top and bottom; the pedestal base and lower base are a later replacement. The copper [cf. supra] font cover is of a dome shape, not a common design seen on English fonts, with a turned wooden handle-finial atop. A B&W photograph [1877?] made available by the Southwell & Nottingham Church History Project shows the font and cover located at the west end of the nave, beneath the western gallery; the church was restored and the interior re-organised several times; in a photograph taken ca. 2009, also made available in the Southwell & Nottingham Church History Project, the font appears located at the east end of the south aisle.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.931966, -1.274253

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 55′ 55.08″ N, 1° 16′ 27.31″ W

UTM: 30U 615993 5866096

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century?

Material: metal, copper [cf. FontNotes]

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979