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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LB01: design element - architectural - window - rectangular
Scene Description: one on each side of the pedestal base
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01827NOT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Church of St. Mary
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"
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: High Pavement, Nottingham NG1 1HN, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 115 958 2105
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: This church is located on Stoney Street
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 30U 624774 5868446
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.951111, -1.142778
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 57′ 4″ N, 1° 8′ 34″ W
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, p. 214
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 12, 153 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 13 October 2009]
- Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927, p. 146
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979, p. 222
- Simpson, Francis, A series of ancient baptismal fonts: chronologically arranged, drwan by F. Simpson, Jun., engraved by R. Roberts, London: Septimus Prowett, 1828, p. 71
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 163