Penrith / Perith

INFORMATION

FontID: 11030PEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Country Name: England
Location: Cumbria, North West
Directions to Site: Located just S of Lazonby, 28 km SE of Carlisle
Historical Region: formerly Cumberland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end, in the tower gallery [cf. FontNotes]
Date: 1661
Century and Period: 15th century [altered] / 17th century, Perpendicular [altered?] / Restoration?
Font Notes:
Noted in Scott (1899) as one of several instances öf fonts having found their way from churches to private grounds [...] during recent years". Cox (1913) writes: "To right-hand side of S. door stands an old holywater stoup. At W. end is octagonal bowl of old font lost in 1720, found in a garden in Shearun Yard and replaced in church in 1903. On one panel is cut 1661, but bowl appears to be 15th cent. ; probably ejected by Commonwealth Puritans and date cut when restored." Noted in Pevsner (1967): "Font. Plain octagonal bowl, dated 1661. On the tower gallery."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Location: on the basin side
Inscription Text: [1661]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, Cumberland and Westmorland, London: George Allen & Co. Ltd., 1913
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cumberland and Westmorland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1967
Scott, Daniel, Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland, London: William Andrews & Co., 1899