Wollaton nr. Nottingham / Woolaton

INFORMATION

FontID: 01829WOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard
Church Location: 736 Wollaton Rd, Nottingam NG8 2AF, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 115 837 2420
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located just W of Nottingham, now part of it
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes:
Fellows (1902) notes: "The church was restored in the years 1885 and 1886 […] The font is a modern one, given by the parishioners in memory of the present rector's wife, sister of Lord Middleton." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907), in Cox (1912) and in Guilfor (1927), however, as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period [NB: Fellows' reference must be to a newly acquired font, not the one mentioned in the other sources]. [cf. Index entry for St. Mary's, at Wollaton Park for a font modelled on the one from Lenton Abbey]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.953056, -1.219444
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 57′ 11″ N, 1° 13′ 10″ W
UTM: 30U 619618 5868532

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912
Fellows, George, "Wollaton Hall, Church, and the Family of Willoughby", 6 (1902), Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 1902
Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927