Thorpe-by-Newark No. 2 / Thorpe by Newark

INFORMATION

FontID: 08807THO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Lawrence
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A46, 6-7 km SW of Newark-on-Trent
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century [composite font?], Medieval / composite
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a holy-water stoup of the Norman period. Cox (1912) remarks: "Font [is] a most curious amalgam. Base stone seems to be part of old font step ; on this a moulded I4th cent, shaft ; shaft crowned with circular holy-water stoup (probably Norm.), 11 in. deep, 6 in. deep inside, and 14 in. in diameter; stoup surmounted by good 17th cent, domed cover ; into rounded finial of cover is screwed a brass candle-socket !" Guilford (1927) notes: "The font is curiously composite and reminds one somewhat of the little bowl at Hoveringham." He also mentions a "stoup in the porch". This font may be the same object listed in Stocker (1997) as a possible early font bowl set within base of successor. Pevsner & Williamson (1979) note" Font. Made of two fragments, with an unusually pretty C17 cover in the form of open ribs curving to the top knob."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 35 cm*
Basin Depth: 15 cm*
Basin Total Height: 27.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in Cox (1912)]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912
Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979
Stocker, D.A., "Fons et origo: The Symbolic Death and Resurrection of English Font Stones", I (1997b), Church Archaeology, 1997, pp. 17-25; r["References"]