Newton Arlosh
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design element - architectural - gable - crocketed gable
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view of church exterior - southeast view
![Source caption: "St John's Church dates from the very early 14th Century, but fell into disrepair following the dissolution of Holme Cultram Monastery in 1583. Due to the generosity of Miss Sarah Losh of Wreay [...] and a Canon Simpson, Vicar of Holm Cultram, the Church was restored in 1843 in strict conformity with the original Anglo-Norman style."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1190816002_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "St John's Church dates from the very early 14th Century, but fell into disrepair following the dissolution of Holme Cultram Monastery in 1583. Due to the generosity of Miss Sarah Losh of Wreay [...] and a Canon Simpson, Vicar of Holm Cultram, the Church was restored in 1843 in strict conformity with the original Anglo-Norman style."
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 October 2017 by The Carlisle Kid [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5561834] [accessed 16 August 2019]
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view of font and cover in context
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 October 2017 by The Carlisle Kid [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5600436] [accessed 16 August 2019]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 09858NEW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist [orig. from Holme Cultram Abbey?]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Notes: built 1303; abandoned at the Dissolution; restored 18thC
Church Address: Newton Arlosh, Wigton CA7 5ET, UK
Site Location: Cumbria, North West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the B5307, 12-13 km NW of Wigton, 20 km W of Carlisle
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Carlisle
Historical Region: formerly Cumberland
Additional Comments: re-cycled font / moved font (originally from Holme Cultram) -- disappeared font? (the one from the ca.1303 church here)
Font Notes:
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No entry found for Newton Arlosh in the Domesday survey. Pevsner (1967) writes: "Font. Octagonal, with cocketed gables. The bottom part is fragmentary. There was probably no stem. The most likely date is the C14." The Visit Cumbria web site [www.visitcumbria.com/car/chc3.htm] informs tha the font "was brought from Holm Cultram Abbey." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: NY1986955244] notes: "Parish Church. Licence to crenellate 11 April 1304, extended and repaired 1844 by Sarah Losh, vestry and restoration 1894. [...] in ruins from the Dissolution to 1844 [...] C13 octagonal font bowl with crocketed gables on fragmentary stem." Medieval baptismal font consisting of three parts: a badly battered basin, appears octagonal, still with some decoration on one of the sides, a fluted stem that looks like part of a shaft, and an octagonal lower base with plain vertical sides. The font is covered with a flat wooden lid.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 483924 6082079
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.8855, -3.2506
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 53′ 7.8″ N, 3° 15′ 2.16″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cumberland and Westmorland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1967, p. 171