Penrith / Perith
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11030PEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1661
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century [altered] / 17th century, Perpendicular [altered?] / Restoration?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end, in the tower gallery [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Site Location: Cumbria, North West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just S of Lazonby, 28 km SE of Carlisle
Historical Region: formerly Cumberland
Additional Comments: moved font into privated hands? / re-cycled font / disused font / restored font / altered font / re-carved font
Font Notes:
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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, p. 114
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cumberland and Westmorland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1967, p. 173
- Scott, Daniel, Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland, London: William Andrews & Co., 1899, p. 50