Shelford

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07374SHE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located just SE of Burton Joyce, 6-7 km ENE of Nottingham
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1662
Century and Period: 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]
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
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912
Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979