Inner Farne

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INFORMATION

FontID: 04814FAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: St. Cuthbert's Chapel
Church Patron Saints: St. Cuthbert [aka Cubertus]
Country Name: England
Location: Northumberland, North East
Directions to Site: Inner Farne is the largest of the Farne Islands, and is about 3 km off the coast of Northumbria
Font Location in Church: outside the chapel, on the yard opposite the door
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Gothic
Church Notes: The chapel was built in the 14th century (restored in the mid-1800s) in the memory of St. Cuthbert, bishop of Lindisfarne, who died and was buried in Inner Farne in 687 A.D., although his body was removed from the island to protect it from the Vikings.
Font Notes:
An illustration of St. Cuthbert's Chapel in Sharp (2000) [ca. 2000?] shows an octagonal baptismal font lying outside, in the yard, to the left of the main door. The font is octagonal of basin, stem and lower base and appears totally plain. It could date from the same period of the chapel, the 14th century, although the rounded underbowl and chamfer of the lower base is more commonly found in 15th-16th century fonts.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

Sharp, Mick, The Way and the Light, London: Aurum Press, 2000