Gedling
INFORMATION
Font ID: 09973EDL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [base only] -- 14th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Hallows [aka All Saints]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17527960
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located in the NE suburbs of Nottingham
Additional Comments: recycled font / composite font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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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, p. 97
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 97 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 14 October 2009]
- 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