Holme Pierrepont / Holm

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symbol - shield - blank - 8

view of church exterior - south view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 November 2012 by Dave Kelly [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3227874] [accessed 20 July 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01826HOL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Edmund
Church Patron Saints: St. Edmund the Martyr [aka Edmund of East Anglia]
Church Location: Holme Lane, Holme Pierrepont, Nottinghamshire NG12 2LD
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 8 km S of Nottingham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham
Historical Region: Hundred of Rushcliffe
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Late Decorated? / Early Perpendicular?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
There is an entry for Holme Pierrepont [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SK6239/holme-pierrepont/] [accessed 20 July 2014], but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. A font here is 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 blank shields in quatrefoils on panels; it is 2 ft. 2 in. in diameter, and is coeval with the tower" [i.e., late 14th century]. In Pevsner & Williamson (1979): "C15, octagonal, with shields; no quatrefoils."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.9468, -1.0696
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 56′ 48.52″ N, 1° 04′ 10.8″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 65 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in Cox (1912)]

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