Tushingham

INFORMATION

FontID: 10763TUS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Chad / Old St. Chad
Church Patron Saints: St. Chad [aka, Ceaadda, Cedd, Ceoddi]
Country Name: England
Location: Cheshire, North West
Directions to Site: Located about 1 km away from the new church and the A41 [there is no road leading to the old church, but The Sandstone Trail passes right next to it]
Font Location in Church: Inside the old church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 17th century(late?), Jacobean
Workshop/Group/Artisan: wooden font
Noted in Pevsner (1971): "Font. Jacobean. A fat baluster and a tiny bowl." [NB: Pevsner makes no mention of the material of the font]. Richards (1973) writes: "Hidden away in the small priest's robing room is a remarkable font, fasioned entirely of oak with the exception of the removable pewter bowl which fits into the hollowed top. The font has a heavy cover of oak, and the elaborately turned baluster pedestal measures four feet in height. The carving is very rich, and would suggest local craftsmanship of the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century. Unfortunately, though neglect, the font is much worm-eaten on one side."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: wood
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Height of Base: 120 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [given in Richards (1973: 333) as the measurement of the pedestal baluster: "four feet in height"]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th century (late?)
Material: wood, oak
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cheshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1971
Richards, Raymond, Old Cheshire churches: a survey of their history, fabric and furniture with records of the older monuments, with a supplementary survey relating to the lesser old chapels of Cheshire, Didsbury, Manchester: E.J. Morten, 1973