Shelford

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 07374SHE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1662
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century, Restoration / Stuart
Cognate Fonts: the fonts at East Bridgford, Newark, Orston, Scarrington, Shelford, Sibthorpe, Tythby, Walkeringham and Warton, all in Notinghamshire, as cognates of the same period [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter & St. Paul
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Peter_and_St_Paul%27s_Church,_Shelford
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just SE of Burton Joyce, 6-7 km ENE of Nottingham
Font Notes:
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) and in Guilford (1927) as a Restoration baptismal font dated 1662. Cox (1912) notes: "Small octagonal font, 1662". In Pevsner & Williamson (1979) with a cognate at Southwell.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Text: [1662]

REFERENCES

  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 174
  • Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 182 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 13 Oct 2009]
  • Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927, p. 167
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979, p. 308, 327