Eglinham

INFORMATION

Font ID: 10890EGL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Maurice
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of the nave [cf. FontNotes]
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17545998
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Maurice [aka Maur, Mauritius, Moritz, Morris]
Site Location: Northumberland, North East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B6346, 10 km NW of Alnwick
Font Notes:
The September 1862 issue of The Gentleman's Magazine informs that the font, which was earlier in the chancel, has been "removed to the west end of the nave", as part of the re-modelling done around the time of the report. [NB: the GENUKI site [www.genuki.bpears.org.uk/NBL/Eglingham] notes that records of baptisms in the church of St. Maurice go back to 1662]