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INFORMATION
FontID: 07384FIN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the A38, just N of the Trent & Mersey canal, 8 km SW of Derby
Date: 1662
Century and Period: 17th century, Restoration / Stuart
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a Restoration baptismal font dated 1662. Noted in Pevsner (1978): "Font. The characteristic type of 1662; small (see Weston-on-Trent, Southwell Notts., etc.)"
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Text: [1662]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Derbyshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978