East Markham
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Image Source: B&W photograph in Briggs (1907)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 09972MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the A57, 3 km N of Tuxford, 24 km W of Lincoln
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1686 [basin only]
Century and Period: 17th century(late) [basin only] [14th century [base only] [composite font], Baroque [composite]
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated jn Briggs (1907). In Cox (1912): "The font is an interesting piece of work, probably dating from 1686, except for its 14th century base […] font cover belong also to the same period." Guildford (1927) mentions a font of 1686 "with its elaborate cover". Noted in Pevsner & Williamson (1979): "Shape probably C14, with eight flying buttresses; bowl 1686, plain, with pyramidal wooden cover"; the latter is dated "early or mid-C17". Listed in Stocker (1997) as one of a group of "early font bowls set within bases of successors".
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Briggs, A. E., Rev., "East Markham Church (2)", 11 (1907), Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 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; p. 24