Nottingham No. 1
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B01: design element - architectural - window - Gothic - 8
Scene Description: cusped arches; with 5-7 internal arches; one on each panel of the basin
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Image Source: Simpson (1828: 71)
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BU01: design element - motifs - floral - 8
Scene Description: a large one on each side of the octagonal chamfer
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Image Source: Simpson (1828: 71)
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LB01: design element - architectural - window - rectangular
Scene Description: one on each side of the pedestal base
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Image Source: Simpson (1828: 71)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01827NOT
Church/Chapel: Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: High Pavement, Nottingham NG1 1HN, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 115 958 2105
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: This church is located on Stoney Street
Font Location in Church: Inside the church; Simpson wrote ca. 1828: "This Font was a few years since moved from the centre of the west end of the nave to its present station under one of the south aisle arches, the third from the west end of the nave"
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described and illustrated in Simpson (1828). Described in Cox (1912): "Good Perp[endicular] font has well-known palindrome Greek inscription incised in modern capitals." The basin is octagonal with sides that are taller than wider; the panels are ornamented with Gothic window tracery inside cusped arches; the underbowl chamfer is also octagonal and has a large floral motif on each side. The stem of the base is octafonal as well, with blind deep-relief rectangular windows that are totally plain; the splayed octagonal lower base volume is plain and short. Simpson (ibid.), Guilford (1927) and Tyrrell-Green (1928) report a Greek-language inscription on this font, but they do not indicate where on the font it appears. The inscription is the ubiquitous "ΝΙΨΟΝ ΑΝΟΜΗΜΑ ΜΗ ΜΟΝΑΝ ΟΨΙΝ" ["cleanse your sin, not just your face"], which Simpson locates also at the fonts in Sandbach (Cheshire) and Harlow (Essex). Listed in Cox-Harvey (1907) as a Perpendicular font with the said palindrome. In Pevsner & Williamson (1979) as Perpendicular.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.951111,
-1.142778
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 57′ 4″ N,
1° 8′ 34″ W
UTM: 30U 624774 5868446
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Rim Thickness: 12.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 57.5 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 82.5 cm
Height of Basin Side: 35 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 125 cm
Notes on Measurements: Simpson (1828: 71)
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Greek
Inscription Text: "ΝΙΨΟΝ ΑΝΟΜΗΜΑ ΜΗ ΜΟΝΑΝ ΟΨΙΝ"
Inscription Source: Simpson (1828: 71); Cox & Harvey (1907: 177); Tyrrell-Green (1928: 163)
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
Simpson, Francis, A series of ancient baptismal fonts: chronologically arranged, drwan by F. Simpson, Jun., engraved by R. Roberts, London: Septimus Prowett, 1828
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928