North Wingfield No. 2 / North Winfield / Northwynfeld / Winnefelt
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07368WIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1662?
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century, Restoration / Stuart
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Lawrence
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Site Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located at the junction A6175-B6038, 7-8 km S of Chesterfield
Font Notes:
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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, p. 174
- Kelly, Kelly's Directory of the counties of Derby, Notts., Leicester and Rutland, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1891, p. 328
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Derbyshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978, p. 292