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INFORMATION
Font ID: 07384FIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1662
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century, Restoration / Stuart
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26291832
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Site Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A38, just N of the Trent & Mersey canal, 8 km SW of Derby
Font Notes:
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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, p. 174
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Derbyshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978, p. 215