Misterton nr. Gainsborough / Ministretone / Minsterton / Munstretton
Image copyright © Alan Murray-Rust, 2011
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design element - motifs - circle
Scene Description: all around, as if they were the bases of missing colonnettes (which they are not)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alan Murray-Rust, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 31 March 2011 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2346733] [accessed 13 February 2018]
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view of church exterior - north view
![FONT digital photograph taken 31 March 2011 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2346733] [accessed 13 February 2018] Source caption: "The font, All Saints, Misterton. This is of considerable interest. The base is 13th century, but the bowl is dated 1662, a quite early date after the restoration of the monarchy. The original presumably suffered as part of the widespread desecration of churches by Parliamentarian forces during the Civil War."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1180213029_compressed.png)
Scene Description: FONT digital photograph taken 31 March 2011 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2346733] [accessed 13 February 2018] Source caption: "The font, All Saints, Misterton. This is of considerable interest. The base is 13th century, but the bowl is dated 1662, a quite early date after the restoration of the monarchy. The original presumably suffered as part of the widespread desecration of churches by Parliamentarian forces during the Civil War."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alison Stamp, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2005 by Alison Stamp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/28313] [accessed 13 February 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julian P Guffogg, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 December 2017 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5621491] [accessed 13 February 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font barely visible at the far back, in the tower space -- Source caption: "Large 12th century tower arch and 14th century arcades in All Saints' church"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 February 2009 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1168652] [accessed 13 February 2018]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Fairweather, 2002
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Peter Fairweather of Lincoln, England [www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alan Murray-Rust, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 31 March 2011 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2346733] [accessed 13 February 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the tower space with the font in its centre
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alan Murray-Rust, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 March 2011 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2346733] [accessed 13 February 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Fairweather, 2002
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Peter Fairweather of Lincoln, England [www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 06465MIS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints [local information refers to possible Holy Rood dedication earlier]
Church Location: High Street, Misterton, Sheffield DN10 4AL, UK -- Tel.: 01427 890954
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the B1403, about 8 km NW of Gainsborough, about 35 km NW of Lincoln
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham
Historical Region: Hundred of Oswaldbeck
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1662?
Century and Period: 13th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Peter Fairweather of www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk for the notes and images of this font.
Church Notes: original Domesday-time church; later 13thC church re-built 19thC
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for this Misterton in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK7694/misterton/] [accessed 13 February 2018], one of which, in the lordship of Robert of Bully, reports a church in it. Guilford (1927) includes this in his list of Early English fonts. In Pevsner & Williamson (1979): "C13 base; bowl of 1660." Composite font: octagonal basin with tall narrow sides and underbowl, all plain; the lower part of this 17th-century basin opens out and is ornamented with round bun-like motifs. The 13th-century base, is also octagonal and plain with vertical sides. The flat wooden base is modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.444072, -0.683647
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 26′ 38.66″ N, 0° 41′ 1.13″ W
UTM: 30U 653839 5924170
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, flat and plain; modern
REFERENCES
Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979