Haswell / Haswell Plough

INFORMATION

Font ID: 11083HAS

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Object Details: former stoup

Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 15th century, Medieval

Church / Chapel Name: Mission-Church

Font Location in Church: Inside the Mission-Church

Church Address: Haswell, Durham DH6 2DT, United Kingdom

Site Location: Durham, North East, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located 10 km E of Durham

Additional Comments: recycled stoup: now serving as baptismal font in a church [cf. FontNotes]

Town/City Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haswell,_County_Durham

Font Notes: Click to view

The 'Keys to the Past' web page of County Durham [www.durham.gov.uk/durhamcc/] informs that the object serving as baptismal font in the Mission-Church at Haswell Plough was originally a holy water stoup found "in a field called Chapel Garth"; in this field "the foundations of what are supposed to have been this [medieval] chapel could be traced".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone