East Stoke nr. Farndon No. 1

INFORMATION

FontID: 06847STO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Oswald
Church Patron Saints: St. Oswald of Nothumbria
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 3-4 km SW of Farndon [NB: the church is located in the park of Stke Hall]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period [NB: C&H list it under Hertfordshire; no "East Stoke" found in Herts.; Notts. has one]. Not mentioned in Pevsner & Williamson (1979). Cox' later work of 1912 mentions only a modern font in this church.

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912