Gedling

INFORMATION

FontID: 09973EDL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Hallows [aka All Saints]

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Country Name: England

Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located in the NE suburbs of Nottingham

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th century [base only] -- 14th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Font Notes: Click to view

Listed in Stocker (1997) as one of a group of "early font bowls set within bases of successors". In Cox (1912): "Plain octagonal font, Dec[orated]; it stands on inverted octagonal slab, the base of former E[arly] E[nglish] font, grooved to receive eight circular shafts."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912

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