North Wingfield No. 2 / North Winfield / Northwynfeld / Winnefelt

INFORMATION

FontID: 07368WIN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Lawrence
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Country Name: England
Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located at the junction A6175-B6038, 7-8 km S of Chesterfield
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1662?
Century and Period: 17th century, Restoration / Stuart
Cox (1875) nreports two fonts, of which, "The present font isn ugly octagon construction, quite out of keeping with the church, and bearing the date 1662." Reported in Kelly's Directory for 1891: "the font in use is an octagon dating from 1662" [source: 1996-2006 transcription by Ann & Andy Andrews reproduced in The Andrews Pages [www.andrewspages.dial.pipex.com/dby/kelly/wingfieldnorth.htm]. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a Restoration baptismal font dated 1660. Noted in Pevsner (1978): "Font. 1662, with scarcely any decoration." [cf. Index entry for North Wingfield No. 1 for the earlier font]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, 1875-1877
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Kelly, Kelly's Directory of the counties of Derby, Notts., Leicester and Rutland, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1891
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Derbyshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978