Tithby / Teethbie / Tythby / Tithby-cum-Cropwell

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 07376TIT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1662? / ca. 1663?
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century [re-cut in the 17th century(mid)?], Decorated [altered]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Trinity_Church,_Tythby
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 3-4 km S of Bingham, 12 km ESE of Nottingham
Additional Comments: altered font / re-cut / re-carved
Font Notes:
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a Restoration baptismal font dated 1662. Described in Cox (1912): "Octagonal font 14th cent.; it bears initials T.S., M.D., on four of its panels, and figures 166. on other 4; the eighth face against the wall. Initials C.W. for churchwardens, cut on the old base. All this was cut when old font was recovered after Puritan ejection." Guilford (1927) gives the date as 1663. Pevsner & Williamson noted is a cognate of the fonts at East Bridgford, Newark, Orston, Scarrington, Shelford, Sibthorpe, Tythby, Walkeringham and Warton, all in Notinghamshire, but include the following footnote: "It coul be a re-carved medieval font, according to Professor Barley."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: letters and numbers
Inscription Location: on the basin and base
Inscription Text: "T.S. M.D. 166 / C.W."
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 174
  • Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 219-220 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 20 Oct 2009]
  • Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927, p. 199
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979, p. 327, 360