Flintham / Flinton

INFORMATION

FontID: 01823FLI
Church/Chapel: Church of St. Augustine of Canterbury
Church Patron Saints: St. Augustine of Canterbury († 604)
Church Location: Inholms Rd, Flintham, Newark NG23 5LG, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 7592 873751
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the A46, 11 km S of Newark
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.00712, -0.90011
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 0′ 25.63″ N, 0° 54′ 0.4″ W
UTM: 30U 640893 5875125

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
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912
Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979