Flintham / Flinton

INFORMATION

Font ID: 01823FLI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Church of St. Augustine of Canterbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Augustine of Canterbury († 604)
Church Address: Inholms Rd, Flintham, Newark NG23 5LG, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 7592 873751
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A46, 11 km S of Newark
Font Notes:
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the late Perpendicular period with a font cover of ca. 1660 [NB: the cover is listed under "Flinton"]. Cox (1912) notes: "Large octagonal font is late 14th cent.; flat cover, c. 1660." In Guildford (1927). In Pevsner & Williamson (1979) also as 14th-century with a 17th-century cover [the information is footnoted: "According to Mr. Alvey."].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 640893 5875125
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.00712, -0.90011
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 0′ 25.63″ N, 0° 54′ 0.4″ 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
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. 12, 95 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 13 October 2009]
  • Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927, p. 39
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979, p. 129 and fn