Wollaton nr. Nottingham / Woolaton

INFORMATION

Font ID: 01829WOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Leonard
Church Address: 736 Wollaton Rd, Nottingam NG8 2AF, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 115 837 2420
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just W of Nottingham, now part of it
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

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

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, p. 214
  • Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 12 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 13 October 2009]
  • 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, p. 39