Hickling nr. Nottingham

Results: 2 records

B01: symbol - shield - blank

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

BU01: angel - demi-figure

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 01825HIC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Luke [St. Mary?]
Church Patron Saints: St. Luke [St. Mary?]
Church Location: Main St, Hickling, Melton Mowbray LE14, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 70 9981 5583
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the A606, 15-16 km SE of Nottingham
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Cognate Fonts: the font at Colston Bassett, also in Notts. [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) and in Guilford (1927) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Described in Cox (1912): "Large octagonal font has bowl supported by band of demi-angels, late 14th cent.; cover 1665." In Pevsner & Williamson (1979): "Octagonal, with plain shields in the panels (cf. Colston Bassett).-- Font cover 1665. Very simple village carpenter's work."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.856578, -0.974194
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 51′ 23.68″ N, 0° 58′ 27.1″ W
UTM: 30U 636395 5858239

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1665
Material: wood
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