Chillingham

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 07392CHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1670
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(late), Restoration
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter [orig. from Ancroft St. Anne's]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17527663
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter [St. Anne for the Ancroft church]
Site Location: Northumberland, North East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B6348, 3-4 km S of Chatton, to the NE of the Northumberland National Park
Font Notes:
In his entry for Ancroft, Wilson (1870) writes: "Built into the south wall of the nave, on the outer side, is a stone inscribed with the same initials and date as are on the font in Chillingham Church, which was removed from Ancroft on a gift of a new one by the vicar of Norham. Mr. Raine suggests that these initials, R. M. W. may be those of the curate, Robert Wood, and his wife. A portion, he adds, of the older font this one replaced is built up in a wall on the south side of the road, near the head of the village." Wilson's (ibid.) entry for Chillingham describes the font as "a relic of Stuart times", and gives the text of the inscription and the former location of the font at Ancroft. [cf. Index entry for Ancroft]. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font originally from the town of Ancroft, later moved to Chillingham; it "has inscribed on the bowl -- God bless this Church M [over] R. W. An Domi. 1670". Described in Pevsner (1957): "brought from Ancroft, 1670. Octagonal shaft and octagonal bowl simply moulded in the Perp[endicular] tradition."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: English
Inscription Location: on the bowl
Inscription Text: "God bless this Church M [over] R. W. An[no] Dom[in]i. 1670"
Inscription Notes: the letter M is mounted over a line over the initials R.W.
Inscription Source: Cox & Harvey (1907: 180); Wilson (1870: 77)

REFERENCES

  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 180
  • Hall, Anna Maria [Mrs. S.C.], Sketches of Irish character, London: Frederick Westley and A. H. Davies, 1829, p. 123
  • Wilson, Frederick Richard, An architectural survey of the churches in the Archdeaconry of Lindisfarne, in the County of Northumberland, containing plans and views […], Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Printed and photo-lithographed by M. and M. W. Lambert, 1870, p. 22, 77, 197