Hope in the High Peak
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06735HOP
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century / 14th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Peter%27s_Church,_Hope
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Site Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located in the High Peak, on the A625, about 25 km WWS of Sheffield, 11-12 km EEN of Chapel-en-le-Frith
Additional Comments: recycled font: An ancient circular font has also been rescued from the vicarage garden by the present vicar, and restored to its proper function in the church
Font Notes:
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Described in Cox (1875-1877): "The font, under thw west gallery, is of a massive octagon shape with octagon base, and is probably of fourteenth century work." "An ancient circular font has also been rescued from the vicarage garden by the present vicar, and restored to its proper function in the church. The period to which it belongs is a matter of uncertainty" [source: William Smith Porter's Notes from a Peakland Parish: An Account of the Church and Parish of Hope in the County of Derby - transcription by Rosemary Lockie, 1999-2000 - in p. 3 of GENUKI's web site www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DBY/Hope/Notes/ChapterI.html]. This is probably the one mentioned in Pevsner (1978) as an "[...] early C12 bowl". Armitage (1905) noted: "The font is supposed to be of the 14th century, but has very little about it to indicate date." [NB: Pevsner (1978) lists a second font in this church: "of 1662 from Derwent church"; note however that Bunting (2001) locates the former Derwent font at Tansley, Derbs.]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Armitage, Ella S., A key to English antiquities with special reference to the Sheffield and Rotherham disctrict, London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1905, p. 254
- Bunting, Julie, "Take a a look at: fonts", 14 May 2001, The Peak Advertiser, 2001, pp. pl. & p. 7; p. 7
- Cox, John Charles, 1875-1877
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Derbyshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978, p. 247