Norton nr. Sheffield (West Yorkshire)

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 11118NOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James, Norton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James the Greater
Church Address: Norton Church Rd, Norton, Sheffield S8 8JQ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 114 274 9302
Site Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A6102, 4-5 km S of Sheffield
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Sheffield
Font Notes:
Armitage (1905) illustrates the font and writes: "There is an E[arly] E[nglish] font of great interest, supported on groups of filleted pillars, with the dog-tooth moulding between." Noted in Mee (1941): "The fine font is 13th century, the bowl carved with heads and foliage and a strange figure like a bird with the tail of a reptile." Pevsner (1986 c1967) notes: "Font. E[arly] E[nglish] with four supports of three shafts each and a bowl with animals under low pointed trefoil arches (cf. Ashbourne, Derbyshire)."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

  • Armitage, Ella S., A key to English antiquities with special reference to the Sheffield and Rotherham disctrict, London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1905, p. 263
  • Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941, p. 270
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967, p. 27, 479